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Azaam Baajour, brother of the Lebanese business, Mahran Mustapha Baajour who was reportedly held for months, has confirmed that his brother was indeed abducted when he arrived at the Kotoka International Airport.

According to him, the brother was picked up by some uniformed officials wielding guns.

"Per the driver who was supposed to pick him up, four cars stopped them with guns and uniforms and took them to a place not known," he said in an interview on Citi Eyewitness News, Tuesday.

He further disclosed that his brother has been admitted at the hospital because of the trauma he went through at the hands of those who abducted him in Ghana.

Mahran Baajour

Mahran Mustapha Baajour, according to the Minority in Parliament who released a statement on his abduction, is a Lebanese businessman who reportedly arrived in Ghana from Lebanon on a business visit on December 13, 2018.

However, upon his arrival, he was not seen or heard from again until his surreptitious release on Monday.

According to Azaam, Mahran arrived in Lebanon on Monday, 25th March; adding, "it’s very difficult to understand what happened to him, because he’s a businessman and travels to different countries. It surprises us what happened to him in Ghana".

Click audio above to listen to Azaam.


Minority's Initial statement

The Minority, in their first statement, had indicated that "immediately after arriving at the Kotoka International Airport on December 13, 2018, Mahran Mustapha Baajour and his two Ghanaian hosts who welcomed him at the airport were arrested at the precincts of the airport just when they were about departing in their Toyota salon vehicle with registration number GN 6126 - 15 by persons claiming to be operatives of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI).

“After all three were kept in detention for six days in violation of Ghanaian law, our understanding is that Mahran's two hosts, one Razak Abdul and another were then released as free men while Mahran was kept in detention. This is the reason Mahran's family and officials from his country are having a hard time believing denials and claims of innocence by Ghanaian Government officials they have contacted”

Government's rebuttal

However, government in a reply denied that the businessman had been abducted in the country describing the minority's claims as "false, unfounded and holding no truth".

"credible checks conducted at the National Security and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration affirm beyond a doubt that no such person had arrived at the Kotoka International Airport, contrary to the palpably false accounts given by the Ranking Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs..." the statement which was signed by Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, John Ntim Fordjour added.