Ghanaian Times

The Ghanaian Times reports that a couple, Ahmed Ganaa Lartey, 35, and Comfort Oworae, both from La in Accra, conspired ad sold their daughter for 80,000 cedis to defray a debt. In a front page story the paper says Comfort, who is three-months pregnant, was reported to have yielded to pressure from her husband who had convinced her that they would soon have another baby to replace the one they were to sell.

But the couple?s, plan, the Times says, did not go as expected and they have landed in prison. According to the paper Ahmed and his wife were arrested at Sampa in the Brong Ahafo Region, by disguised policemen hiding at the Sampa Rural Bank, when the couple went to cash a cheque for 80,.000 cedis given to them by a policewoman, Corporal A. Tekpor, who posed as a businesswoman interested in buying the child. The couple were subsequently prosecuted and jailed 10 years in hard labour each.