IGP, Ministers of Defense and National Security will face Parliament as a result of kidnappings

General News on Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-01-29

The Inspector General of Police (IGP) should honor an invitation to Parliament to answer questions about the recent wave of kidnappings in the country.

David Asante Appeatu is invited with Dominic Nitiwul and Albert Kan-Dapaah; the Ministers of Defense and National Security, respectively.

The invitation has become necessary to enable them to provide the public with first-hand information about current events.

Traces of Ruth Quayson, Priscilla Blessing Bentum and Priscilla Koranchie, who were abducted in the Sekondi-Takoradi region in the Western Region in 2018, continue to preoccupy Ghanaians.

Although Ghanaian police have sought help from the United States and the United Kingdom to facilitate investigations, the general outcry sparked by the outcry over the police's inability to trace the three girls persists .

Seth Acheampong, chairman of the parliament's interior and defense committee, revealed on television on the news program "The Point of View" on Monday that they would invite the three leaders.

"We are going to have the IGP testify before the committee. We will write to them and prepare them. This week, they come to us. The Minister of the Interior will come with the people from his sector who we need to give us some badurance that the country is safe. Then we will also write to the Minister of National Security. "

Kidnapped girls still alive, says minister of gender

The only suspect arrested in this case, Samuel Udoetuk Wills, who escaped from prison and escaped. He was later arrested in Nkroful, near Takoradi, is currently being tried for cell escape, but has refused to give the police significant leads to arrest his accomplices.

But there is hope for the families of the three girls kidnapped by Takoradi when the Minister of Welfare and Social Welfare revealed that the girls are still alive and well.

The Minister of Women's Affairs, Cynthia Morrison, dispelled the fears of the outraged public by saying that the kidnapper had broken his silence by baduring him that the girls had not been killed.

"We are progressing now. The alleged abductor was brought to Accra and he began to speak. He tells us that girls are still alive; it's hope we have now. He confirmed that all three girls are alive. What we are looking for though is the exact location where they are. So for now, it's where we are. "

Ghana and recent abductions

Kidnappings in the western region have sparked support for traumatized families and a campaign on Ghana's social networks has urged the police to be more aggressive in finding missing girls.

Already, a team of investigators from the United Kingdom and the United States of America has arrived in the country to help the Ghana police search for kidnapped girls in Takoradi.

Their arrival follows a petition to both countries to help Ghana locate missing girls between August 2018 and January 2019.

IDC chief, DCOP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, as well as senior officials of the West Regional Police Command visited the families of the three abducted girls in separate meetings in Takoradi.

She said the investigation team had been beefed up and had badured families to step up their efforts to save girls.