Takoradi Kidnappings: Fear, panic shakes the twin city

Priscilla Koranchie, 15, Priscilla Blessing Bentum, 21 and Ruth Love Quayson,

A team of investigators from the United States of America and the United Kingdom is in the country to help the Ghana Police Service to search for the three abducted girls in the metropolis of Sekondi / Takoradi between August and last December..

This responds to growing pressure on the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Police Service to intensify abduction investigations to badist victims.

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Last week, family members of the victims asked the police to prove that the girls were alive.

Meet the families

Ms. Maame Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Chief Executive Officer of the IDC, announced this information in separate meetings with the families of the three girls and badured them of the commitment of the police. police administration to find the girls.

She urged families and the public to cooperate with the police, claiming that the team of investigators was seriously working on the follow-up of the girls, adding: "Not all the leads identified during the investigations can be made public. "

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She said saving the victims was not a problem for families but sharing responsibility for the entire nation.

The head of the CID has had contact with the families of the victims in their homes, during which she conveyed them the sympathies of the IGP and the police administration.

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The families expressed gratitude to the police for the constant interaction with them, led by the commander of the West Regional Police.

"This gives us confidence that the police attach great importance to looking for girls," said the mother of one of the girls.

Fear, panic city ​​twin rocks

Meanwhile, there is a paranoia within Sekondi / Takoradi about the kidnapping, as the slightest attempt by men to engage with women, especially when it does not happen. There are no third parties, make them scream and scream for help.

Foreigners seeking directions to places are believed to be among the kidnappers in search of victims.

The police have so far documented cases of near lynching innocent and false kidnapping alerts in some communities.

For example, the timely police intervention yesterday morning prevented a young man in his twenties from being lynched in Kojokrom, a suburb of Sekondi, after being accused of Having kidnapped a lady.

When family members and members of the community charged and went to the man's home, the lady was brushing her teeth with a piece of cloth around her.

Before the crowd arrived at the residence, a person had called the police, who had arrived in time to save the situation and had put in the custody of the young man and his girlfriend.

According to the police, Apparently the two had been dating each other for some time and on the blind side of their family.

Due to the prevailing panic in the region, especially in Sekondi-Takoradi, some pbadengers are abandoning taxis for commercial minibuses (trotro) for fear of being kidnapped.

Some Nigerians living in the city are also living in fear after being badociated with the kidnapping of the three missing girls.

Police said that even though patrols had increased, members of the public who found suspicious people around them rang the alarm, accusing people that they did not know of being unidentified. kidnappers and missing.

Weekend fromremoval"

Over the weekend, police recorded similar cases of false alarms of kidnapping in Kansaworodo, Takoradi Central Market, Ajoa, Tarkwa Nsuaem and Elubo, particularly against Nigerians.

The West Regional Police Command stated that almost all district and division commands were inundated with cases of alleged abductions, even in situations where young women snuck out of their homes. to visit male friends without permission.

Up to now, five people have been arrested, two of them for keeping minors as girlfriends and others for badault.

Kwesimintsim, Takoradi, Ajoa, Elubo

In Takoradi, a lady who had agreed to take an elevator to the city center by private car claimed that she had been kidnapped because the driver was driving too fast and ordered him to stop. .

After coming down, she called a radio station and claimed that she had almost been kidnapped.

Again, a woman who claimed to have been released after being kidnapped in Takoradi for ritual purposes asked her husband to send a voice recording to a Takoradi-based radio station to tell the story of the nightmare. ;wife.

At Elubo, the daughter of a 17-year-old pastor who left home on January 20 2019 to her boyfriend in another part of the city without her parents' consent, would have been kidnapped by the police until she was seen in town.

The police, however, arrested Kasim Suleman's 26-year-old daughter's boyfriend and charged him with removal of a minor girl.

The Kwesimintsim District Police Command rescued three young men in a taxi, after accusing them of being charged by girls from Ajoa, a community near Kwesimintsim, for attempting to kidnap.

Police Command

The Regional Police Commander, Deputy Police Commissioner (DCOP), Mr. Redeemer Vincent Dedjoe, told the Daily Graphic that the situation was no better and that the command had put in place measures, each report being taken seriously.

"We have stepped up patrols and if anyone suspects or sees strangers in his community, he should inform the police. We have patrol teams that will be deployed immediately.

"If the community is also apprehending a suspect, they have to hand him over to the police and not do justice to themselves," said DCOP Dedjoe, warning that "if people could just shout and point people, accusing them of" Abduction, then the whole society will not be safe.

The police commander called on the media not to hurry to be the first to report, saying, "You should try to check; we are here to clarify certain issues to ensure public safety. "