Lecturer remanded for alleged involvement in wife’s disappearance
On October 27, the police in a statement said they secured an order to refer the husband of Rhodaline for psychiatric examination because he was making incoherent statements about the matter.
Dr. Wilberforce Aggrey, a lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has been remanded into police custody for his alleged involvement in the disappearance of his wife, Rhodaline Amoah-Darko, a staff of the Lands Commission in Kumasi.
The Asokwa District Court provisionally charged him with kidnapping.
The prosecution asked that the court remands him into police custody to allow for further investigations into the matter.
According to the police, Dr. Aggrey sent messages from his wife’s phone on the day he claimed she had been kidnapped. The police say communication from her mobile phone, alleged to have been from kidnappers demanding a ransom, came from a cell tower close to the KNUST campus home of the accused.
The police said in his caution statement, Dr. Aggrey admitted that he sent those messages through his wife’s phone.
The accused, however, says he has no knowledge of the whereabouts of the victim’s phone or her location.
Rhodaline was reported missing after she was said to have left home at Gyenyase in the Asokwa Municipality of the Ashanti Region on Monday, August 30, 2021.
However, her family in a statement on September 5, 2021, said Rhodaline left home for Sunyani on August 30, 2021, but was last seen on September, 2nd 2021 around 8:00 am on the KNUST campus.
On October 27, the police in a statement said they secured an order to refer the husband of Rhodaline for psychiatric examination because he was making incoherent statements about the matter.
The case has been adjourned to November 26, 2021.
