“It has been 2 years of sorrow” – distraught family offers GH₵100k for missing relative

The family of the missing Lands Commission staff has been left shattered since the disappearance of their family member.

It has been two years of sorrow and two years of waiting for a never-ending closure on the matter.

The 32-year-old Rhodaline Amoah-Darko was reported missing after she allegedly left home at Gyenyase in Kumasi on August 30, 2021 and did not return.

Preliminary investigations into the circumstances leading to the disappearance revealed that the Lands Commission did not assign Mrs Amoah-Darko any official work.

However, further investigations linked Dr. Wilberforce Aggrey, husband and lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), to an authored kidnapping note.

Police also accused him of using his wife’s phone to distribute text messages from a spot near his KNUST campus home.

He now has to answer to two charges — kidnapping and deception of a public officer.

Two other suspects, Justice Appiah and Yaw Amoateng, said to have sold and bought a phone belonging to missing Rhodaline Darko are also standing trial.

But the case has seen little or no progression, thus the recent plea by the family and a cash reward for anyone who can provide information leading to her whereabouts.

“It has been 2-years of sorrow. Two years of expectations; expecting that I will get up one day and I will hear that Rhoda has come. I have waited and waited and waited and it’s 2 years plus now and to no avail.

“It has not been easy at all as a mother. The angels of God, I am praying that they bring her to me so that it would be a Christmas bonus for me,” a distraught mother Cecelia Obenewa Appiah spoke to Joynews monitored by theghanareport.com.

The distraught family has offered a GH₵100,000 reward for anybody who can help locate their missing relative.

“I’m still on my knees that whoever has heard of where Rhoda has been kept, whoever has a clue as to where Rhoda is, please, you should all let me know. Help me find Rhoda.

“When you have any information that will lead to the whereabouts of Rhoda, please call these numbers, 053 56 312 78 or 053 55 835 13. Whoever helps us to find Rhoda, we have GH₵100,000 reward for that person,” she added.

Meanwhile, the Kumasi High Court is expected to hear the case on November 13, 2003, after several adjournments.