On Impulse She Accepted A “Lift” By A Driver She Doesn’t know

Monday night, at about 7.20 pm on 16 October 2023, an innocent-looking girl entered a black Corolla saloon car without a registration number on the back. This was at Madina Zongo junction in Accra.

She initially refused the offer by the unidentified man who beckoned at her to hop into his car. However, when the man parked the car and insisted, the young lady walked straight to the car and zoomed in.

With traffic going slow, I chased up and took a picture of the car. She got into the car within a twinkle of an eye. Everything happened so fast. This is how girls get murdered.

I moved forward to get a front view of the car, and there hung an unregistered number plate, DV _ _ _ _ M. With dark tinted glasses or thickly-veiled windows, the unidentified man behind the steering wheel rolled up the glasses, off the vehicle meandering through the traffic jam to an unknown destination.

The young girl, who was in a decent yellow dress, aged about 22, now probably has her fate hanging in the balance in the light of recent public safety issues. Acting on impulse, she failed to do a split-second risk analysis. As she sat in the front seat beside the driver, did she ever guess another person could be hiding in the back seat?

The West African nation of Ghana is praised for her democratic credentials and relatively peaceful nature, yet the hideous insects secretly gnawing at her are often shelved. One of the albatrosses of its recent history is the incidence of murder.

Mysterious deaths in which females are mostly targeted. Lonely, or walking unaccompanied in isolated places, the killers strike.

Many others fell victim to ruthless killers under similar circumstances. Body parts usually removed in the specters are the brain, heart, eyes, tongue, breasts, and genitals.

One can only hope that the unsuspecting girl who is the topic sentence of this discussion is not taken to the slaughterhouse. If she was taken for “night worker,” still she could end up ingloriously.

A lot of public education is required in Ghana.