Police deploy more staff looking for kidnapped girls

General News on Thursday, January 24, 2019

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-01-24

Ghana Police Services hired INTERPOL, mobilized more staff in its various departments and deployed them to track down the three abducted girls in Takoradi last year.

According to the police, they will work tirelessly to ensure that the kidnappers are apprehended.

Civil society blamed the police for failing to act quickly to save the girls and return them to their families.

This has led to social media campaigns calling on stakeholders to take action, but police chief executive, Police Public Affairs David Eklu, said the police would make an extra effort to locate the girls.

"A specialized unit of the counterterrorism unit, the Police Intelligence Directorate, the CID, is in the Western Region to support the efforts it is deploying in the region so that we can get these girls and reunite them with their families, "he said. I said.

Several weeks after official complaints were lodged with the police regarding the disappearance of children, it has still not provided any concrete information on the whereabouts of the children. children while she holds a key suspect.

The situation has made families anxious to call on the police to act quickly and more aggressively.

In an interview with Citi News, West Regional Police Command's Public Relations Officer, DSP Olivia Adiku, said that even though a suspect is in custody, he does not believe he was in custody. not yet information on where girls are specifically located.

"We are still working 24 hours a day to get information because, although we were able to stop him, he was not able to tell us exactly where these women are. Whether they are in Ghana or not, their state of health and all that. We provide the families. That's not all we can say publicly, but we do a lot of work behind the scenes to get to the bottom of things. Some tracks have appeared but we can not broadcast them for security reasons, "she said.

The commander of the West Regional Police, DCOP Redeemer Dedjoe, also urged the public to remain calm, as the police received new information that will help rescue the kidnapped girls.

There is no reason for the public to live in fear, because the monitoring of communications on the Nigerian suspect's phone shows that he has an ever closer relationship with the kidnapped victims by promising to give them phones. and jobs.

DCOP Dedjoe therefore asked the public to remain calm and be wary of invitations from unknown people.

At the same time, the Minister of Women, Children and Social Welfare, Cynthia Morrison, called on the family of the victims to remain calm, the police working to save the girls.

"Already, the families of the kidnapped girls are agitated. All we ask is that we recover our daughters … For now, we do not know what happens to them. I pray that they are not badaulted. They [families] started to shake but I asked them to calm down … "