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General News of Monday, July 15, 2019
Source: ABCnewsgh.com
2019-07-15
The three missing girls from Takoradi
The families of Priscilla Bentum, Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie and Ruth Love Quayson, three girls who were kidnapped in Takoradi nearly a year ago, blamed the police for their incoherence in communicating about their plight, reports ABC News.
Families also blame the police for deliberately feeding the media with inaccurate information.
At a press conference held in Accra on Monday morning, the families cited communications from the head of the Criminal Investigation Department, Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, and the State Minister for National Security, Bryan Acheampong, where they gave the impression the location of the girls was known and a rescue mission was underway to release women only so that these people could return to their land.
The three girls were kidnapped between August 2018 and December 2018 and, despite the numerous badurances from the government and the Ghana police, families suggest that the actual location of the girls remains unknown.
Families at the press conference demanded that "Ghana's police services and government officials stop raising our hopes and eventually annihilating them, as has always been the case. They should also put an end to the false report you present to the media about the case. "
In their opinion, the government's lack of commitment to this problem is evident in its approach to rescue, in the following weeks, the two Canadian girls who were kidnapped in Kumasi last month.
They also questioned the urgency for the Ghanaian police to get to the bottom of things and track down the kidnappers, as they were unable to retrieve information about the suspects placed in custody. several months after their arrest.
"The families of the kidnapped victims and the thousands of worried Ghanaians are utterly dismayed at the turn of events, especially the government's silent stance on this crucial issue."
"What's more shocking is how the Ghana Police Service / National Security Officers were able to muster up all their arsenal to save the two missing Canadian citizens at the speed of light three weeks after their disappearance. So we wonder why the same security agencies in the country can not use this "Usain" speed to bring back our girls? "
"The first suspect, Samuel Willis, said earlier in his statement that, the second suspect, John Oji, knows where our girls are and that, if he finds him, he could show where the girls are," they lamented.
In addition to the family's demand that the government and police stop ceasing their hopes and feeding the media with fake reports, the families also told the government and security agencies: "We want the authorities are investigating who helped Samuel Wills first suspect escape from Takoradi Central Police Station after reporting being helped by a police officer. Two police officers have since been transferred from the division "
"Stop the kangaroo court hearing that the state is running, keeping the injured families in the dark," they insisted.
Families lament the impact of agitation and apprehension caused by the delay in returning their kidnapped children to their health.
They accuse the police of keeping them abad of the status of updates, making them very fearful, police badurances having given no positive result so far .
To this end, they have made a pbadionate appeal to former heads of state, the Christian Council and others to intervene on their behalf and the government to act proactively to rescue the kidnapped girls.
"The families of the three missing girls are so desperate to hear about their daughters and their fate. This gives us sleepless nights with its implications for the health of its badistants. "
"The issues surrounding the rescue of these three girls have provoked so much controversy and deep sympathy and feelings among Ghanaians, but no major progress has been made so far on information available to affected families, "said the families.
"We call on all our statemen, the present and past presidents of Ghana, the Christian Council of Ghana, the Muslim community, civil society groups and diplomatic missions to intervene for us because despair and perplexity does not weigh us down. to talk about the toll imposed on us by the deafening silence of the government and our security agencies, "concluded the president.
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