A 19-year-old girl who was reported to have been kidnapped has said she left home in her own free will to live with a male friend at Dzorwulu, a suburb of Accra.

Speaking in an interview on AccraFM, Charity Dua, a student of La PRESEC, who was reported kidnapped by her father said she decided to leave home to escape her mother's constant maltreatment.

Her worried father, Mr Agyeman Dua, had earlier narrated on the same station that Charity had been abducted since 19 December 2018.

The matter was reported to the Kotobabi Police, but according to Mr Dua, no significant results were achieved.

Narrating the incident, Charity said: “I was not kidnapped,”.

She added: “I left home to live with my friend where I thought I could get some peace of mind from the harassment and maltreatment I received from my mother at home. At a point, I asked if, indeed, that was my mother because I could not understand some of her utterances against me at home.”

She stressed: “I was not kidnapped, I left home on my own and decided to return home.

“Surprisingly, while I was with my friend I never heard in the news that I had been kidnapped although I am being told that the announcement was made in the media.”