Kidnapping: Up your game – Minister of Gender Equality at the police

General News of Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Source: Starrfmonline.com

2019-01-23

The Minister for Gender Equality, Child Protection and Social Welfare wants the police to expose the culprits behind a kidnapping in Takoradi, in the west of the country.

Mrs. Cynthia Morrison stated that she was "in a panicky mood" and that it was incumbent upon the security agencies to restore public confidence.

"They [police] should improve their game because kidnappings are not what we hear about in Ghana. It's sad and I sympathize with the family, "she told Morning Starr facilitator Francis Abban on Wednesday, January 23, 2019.

Kidnappings have increased in the oil-rich region. Residents of the western region said that about seven people had been kidnapped so far, an badertion disputed by the police. The police put the number at three.

One of the parents of one of the three girls who were kidnapped lamented that the suspected kidnappers refused to bring back her daughter even after paying the ransom requested.

The minister of gender equality has notified her summons to a meeting with police chief David Asante-Apeatu to speed up the process of bringing the kidnappers together.

She called on the girls to "be careful where they are going and what calls they have to answer".

Calling on the Takoradi police command to give priority to the case, she said: "I pray that they [victims] are still alive. I am a little relieved of what I hear behind the scenes. "

"I am in a panic mood. The whole country is panicked, "she said.

Slow motion

Security badyst Adam Bonah on Tuesday accused Takoradi's police of not reacting well to the kidnapping situation in the capital of the western region.

"From the beginning, I think there were gaps here and there. The police probably could have reacted quickly enough to help these girls, but unfortunately it was not able to do it in the first 72 hours and in a kidnapping case like this, the first two or three days if you are. If you can not carry out any proper rescue, know that every day, the situation will escalate, "said Bonah in Starr Today.