Pregnancy tests of victims at Axim, Takoradi and Effia Nkwanta hospitals come back negative – Police

Ghana Police Service disclosed the three tests performed at Axim Government Hospital, Takoradi Hospital and Effia Nkwanta Government Hospital to determine whether Josephine Panyin Mensah was indeed pregnant at the time of her disappearance. negative.

This was after the self-proclaimed pregnant woman found in Takoradi was transferred from the government Axim Hospital to the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital in the Western Region capital.

Joséphine Panyin Mensah was transferred under strict police escort on Thursday 23 September.

She has been admitted to the Axim government hospital since Tuesday, September 21, when she was found in the garden of the Church of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Tolanu, a suburb of Axim.

She was found without her pregnancy, raising fears of the horrific ordeal she went through at the hands of her alleged captors.

But on Wednesday September 22, the Minister of the Western Region, Kwabena Otchere Darko Mensah, opened Pandora’s box by declaring that Joséphine Panyin Mensah has never been pregnant.

He told Kumasi-based Kessben FM that the pregnancy all this time was fake, according to preliminary National Security inquiries.

This has been strongly contested by relatives of the 28-year-old, who has been declared a suspect by police, and residents of Columbia, where she lives.

Some residents have even invoked curses on the regional minister for inciting such “lies” to their neighbor.

Many therefore demanded an independent examination of the hitherto kidnapped victim.

The assistant to the minister of the Western region, Justice Acquah, confirmed in an interview with Eric Mawuena Egbeta of the general of the media that Mrs. Josephine Panyin Mensah had been transferred Thursday evening to the regional hospital of Effia Nkwanta for additional checks.

He also revealed that her husband, Michael Simmons, and her mother had been arrested by police for questioning, saying the alleged kidnapping “was well planned. A person cannot organize a kidnapping. He had an accomplice who helped them make their ideas come true ”.