The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Mrs. Cynthia Morrison has said the return of 19-year-old Charity Dua, who ran away from home in December last year, gives her confidence that the three kidnapped girls in Takoradi in the Western Region will return home safely and reunite with their families.

“I can be rest assured that once Charity has come home, the other girls will also come home,” Mrs. Morrison told Benjamin Akakpo on the Executive Breakfast Show (EBS) on Class91.3FM on Tuesday, 29 January 2019.

Charity, whose father reported to the police that she had been kidnapped, said she was not abducted but voluntarily left home to stay with a male friend at Dzorwulu, a suburb of Accra.

Speaking on the EBS on the same day, Charity, a student of La PRESEC, said she was constantly maltreated by her mother at home.

Therefore, out of frustration, she decided to leave home.

Her father, Mr. Agyeman Dua, had earlier narrated 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.

It is now clear that his daughter deliberately left home.

“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.”

While advising Charity to be submissive and obedient to her parents, as their rebukes were not signs of hatred but love, Mrs Morrison said she was confident the other three kidnapped girls will also return home.

One of the three victims, 18-year-old Ruth Love Quayeson, was last seen on 4 December 2018. The other two, 21-year-old Priscilla Blessing Bentum, was last seen on 17 August 2018; and 18-year-old Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, was last seen on 21 December 2018.