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Nana Akomea has expressed worry over the staged kidnapping of some students of the Presbyterian Boys' Senior High School (PRESEC) where the kidnappers demanded GHc 340,000 from their supposed victim's family.

Six PRESEC students have been arrested by the Police for faking the kidnap of a student who, according to Police statement, plotted with his friends to dupe his parents.

The kidnappers managed to squeeze GHc 20,000 from the concerned family after negotiations and agreement to set their son free.

The kidnappers after receiving the amount refused to release the student insisting that the family further pays GHc 300,000 and threatened to send their son chopped into pieces if they fail to comply with their instruction.

It was later discovered that the kidnapping story was a ploy by the captive and his captors who are also students of the school and friends to extort money from the captive’s family for him to travel abroad.

The STC Chief Executive Officer, contributing to Peace FM's "Kokrokoo" morning show, wondered how a young boy could come up with such barbaric idea to extort money from his parents.

To him, this is the highest form of student misbehavior but called on the authorities to reform the suspects.

"I'm sure they are minors. They need counselling because they are teenagers," he appealed.