Four people were given 10-year sentences each for kidnapping Canadian girls

A Ghanaian court has convicted four people who abducted two Canadian girls in 2019 in Nhyiaso in Kumasi’s Ashanti Region to ten years in jail for each of the abductions.

At the conclusion of a three-year trial, the court found them guilty on the charges of kidnapping and conspiring to abduct.

The defendants are: Yusif Yakubu, a Ghanaian; Elvis Ojiyorme, a 27-year-old businessman; Jeff Onarsar, a 28-year-old tiler; and Sampson Agalor, a 27-year-old computer engineer.

Elvis Omarsar, who is currently a prisoner, apologized to the victims and their families shortly after the verdict was handed down.

The victims: Bailey Chittey and Lauren Tilly were abducted outside their Kumasi hostel while they were performing volunteer work in Ghana.