Girl loses money to fraudstersGirl loses money to fraudsters

Tarkwa, Jan. 24, GNA - Two fraudsters on Thursday snatched 20,000 Ghana cedis from a 21- year-old student at the Tarkwa Roman Catholic School park.The victim, Miss Clarita Affum, told the Ghana News Agency in tears that her father sent her on Thursday to withdraw the amount from the Tarkwa branch of the Ghana Commercial bank at Nzemaline.She said when she got to the banking hall she contacted his friend, one Kenneth, who worked at the bank to assist her cash the money.She said while packing the money into her hand bag she realized that some costumers who had come to transact business were staring at her.The victim said she got frightened and informed his friend that she would hand over the money to his father at home and go to the clinic to seek medical treatment as she was not well.Miss Affum said when she got out of the bank to board a taxi at the GOIL filling station, a young man approached her and claimed he had been sent by his father from Akwatia to deliver a parcel to one Mr. Owusu and asked her to assist him to locate the said man.The victim told him she did not know of any such person and when she was about to leave another man came over and pleaded with the victim to escort him to the Tarkwa Roman School as he was stranger in town.Miss Affum said after some few minutes she realized was alone at the Tarkwa Roman Catholic School without her bag containing the money. Chief Superintendent Ernest Kuukure Mayeeb confirmed the incident to the GNA and said investigations are going on.GNA Read Full Story