Takoradi girls kidnapped: PGI summoned before Parliament

General News of Saturday, May 4, 2019

Source: clbadfmonline.com

2019-05-04

Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu alluded to the fact that Inspector General of Police (IGP) David Asante-Apeatu was summoned to Parliament to explain the measures taken by the police service to rescue the three girls abducted from Takoradi when the house resumes. Can.

The head of the Criminal Investigation Section (CID), Maame Yaa Tiwaah Addo Danquah, said at a press conference that the police knew where the missing girls were, but the girls were still missing. not been saved.

The girls' families had planned to go to IDC headquarters on May 2, 2019 to ask Ms. Danquah where they were to find him, but this action was suspended after the commander of the Western Region Police; DCOP Vincent Redeemer Dzedzo led a police delegation to introduce family liaison officers.

Speaking at the last emergency meeting of the house on Friday, May 3, 2019, Iddrisu said the issue of abducted girls should be of concern to all Ghanaians.

The legislator of Tamale South said, "Mr. President, the issue of abducted girls needs national attention and I think that Mr. President, the next time we come, we will table a motion calling for the 39 Inspector General of Police, through the Minister of the Interior, to inform this badembly of measures that go beyond the radio interviews that we have heard to protect these children. "

The missing girls are Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, aged 18, last seen on 21 December 2018; Priscilla Blessing Bentum, age 21, last seen on August 17, 2018; and Ruth Love Quayson, age 18, last seen on December 4, 2018.

The man suspected of being behind the kidnappings, Samuel Udoetuk-Wills, who broke into a cell and escaped from custody in command of the Takoradi Metropolitan Police on December 30, 2018, was arrested again by the police.

Udoetuk-Wills was taken back in the early hours of Friday, January 4, 2019 by three police officers in an abandoned building in the bush at Kansawurodu, near Takoradi.

He was sentenced by the court of the Takoradi market circle to 18 months in prison for escaping legal detention.