[ad_1]
General News of Saturday, August 3, 2019
Source: Graphic.com.gh
2019-08-03
The bodies exhumed are believed to be those of the missing girls
Police have recovered skeletons suspected to be those of missing Takoradi girls.
According to Samuel Udeotuk-Wills, Graphic Online's Western Region correspondent, Dotsey Koblah Aklorbortu, the skeletons were found Friday night in a ventilation pit linked to an unfinished building previously occupied by the company. 39, one of the accused.
During their investigations, the police learned that the missing girls were buried in the aeration pit behind the unfinished Kansaworodo building in Takoradi.
Subsequently, Accra police stormed the accused's home in Kansaworodo on Friday night and cordoned off the area.
Around 17:30 on Friday. Graphic Online understands that, with the help of a sump bouncer from the prison service, they started emptying the sump.
At 8 pm, police found the skeletons suspected to be those of the missing girls and moved away from the scene with the skeletons packed in four separate boxes and headed for Accra.
According to Takoradi's Graphic Online reporter, Dotsey Koblah Akorbortu, family members of missing girls who got wind of the operation quickly went to the scene and then went to Accra when they learned that the police were going to Accra with the skeletons.
The family members have since called for an independent forensic investigation to determine whether the skeletons found were those of the missing girls.
Police confirm the discovery of human remains behind the home of the accused, daughter of Takoradi
In a statement issued by the head of the Public Affairs Section of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Juliana Obeng, Superintendent of Police, Friday evening, police said that "the human remains found would be sent to the police laboratory. Ghana police service scientist for badysis and further investigation. "
"As part of the investigation into the three (3) girls kidnapped by Takoradi, the Criminal Investigation Department and Western Regional Command proceeded earlier on the evening of August 2, 2019 to an operation in Kansaworodo, in the suburb of Takoradi, "says the police release.
"During the operation that took place around 7 pm, human remains were found in a septic tank located in an unfinished building." The building had previously been occupied by the convict Samuel Udeotuk-Wills, who was buried in the building. one of the defendants tried for allegedly kidnapping the three (3) girls from Takoradi, "the police statement added.
The Minister of the Interior on Missing Girls of Takoradi
Interior Minister Ambrose Dery last Tuesday [July 31, 2019] He told parliament that security agencies were still investigating the disappearance of the three girls and hoped to save them, said Graphic Online's parliamentary correspondent, Musah Yahaya Jafaru.
Mr. Dery said the government would continue its efforts to drag the accused and other suspects to rescue the girls and send them back to their parents.
Mr. Dery was responding to an urgent question asked by Mr. James Agalga, member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for Builsa North, about the measures the government intends to introduce to deal with kidnappings young women in the western region and other parts of the country.
Mr. Dery said that one person had been arrested in connection with the case in Ghana and that another person had also been arrested in Togo.
He said the police were following the case but had indicated that he would not give details about the investigations.
He added that the government was in constant contact with the parents of the missing children to give them news of the investigation.
Mr. Dery refuted the statement that the cases of kidnappings were on the rise and indicated that under the previous regime, Ghanaians had not been informed of the situation.
He said that of the 77 and 76 cases recorded in previous years, 47 abduction cases were reported this year. [2019]and reported that 21 cases were false and 17 were saved.
He said the government would not give up until all the missing children were saved.
L & # 39; s case
Between August and December 2018, three cases of suspected abductions were reported in the western region and the victims have not yet been found.
In all three cases, the police determined that the alleged abductor [Samuel Udeotuk-Wils] Hit knowledge with the victims for a while before moving on to action.
Police said the kidnapper contacted the victims several times by cell phone.
He promised a job for the first and second victims, while he promised a cell phone to the third victim.
The first victim, Priscilla Blessing Bentum, 21, was kidnapped in Kansaworodo on August 17, 2018; The second victim, 18-year-old Ruth Love Quayson, was abducted on December 4 in Butumegyabu Junction, better known as BU Junction in Takoradi. The third victim, Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, a first-year student of Sekondi College (SEKCO) who resided in West Fijai with her parents, was reported missing on December 4 last year in a location near Nkroful Junction. .
A day after the disappearance of the third victim, the police, through extensive investigations, arrested Samuel Udoetuk Wills, a 28-year-old Nigerian, in his hideout in the suburb of Kansaworodo.
He has since been detained after appearing in court.
During a visit to Bawdie-Dompim, in the western district of Amenfi, recently organized as part of his tour in the western region, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said the government was not sleeping not about missing girls from Takoradi.
He badured the affected families and the country that everything would be done to save them, and said that the security agencies were working very seriously, albeit calmly, and expressed optimism about the success of these efforts. .
"We do not sleep on the three missing young women. It is important to note that the people involved are evil and cunning people and that the team is working to save them, "said the president.
Source link
