[ad_1]
General News on Friday, July 26, 2019
Source: dailyguidenetwork.com
2019-07-26
President Akufo-Addo
The president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, commented on the case of the disappeared girls from Takoradi, saying that the government was not sleeping on the issue, as perceived.
"With regard to missing girls from Takoradi, I want to badure you that we are not sleeping on them, but that the government and the security agencies are doing everything they can to get the girls back to their respective families," she said. he rocks.
The fate of Takoradi's three missing girls – Ruthlove Quayson, Priscilla Blessing Bentum and Priscilla Koranchie – who were kidnapped between August and December 2018 remains a mystery several months after the issue became nationally important.
Addressing the chiefs and inhabitants of Axim in the municipality of Nzema East, in the West region, during a two-day working visit, the president said "The fact that little information has been communicated does not mean that government or security agencies are not working hard to ensure their safe return to their families. "
He described the perpetrators of these kidnappings as "evil criminals" and said that "the government is vigorously employing the girls."
He pointed out that the government would not stay away from the fact that an adverse event could happen to a Ghanaian. "We do not sleep on this issue," he added.
Reacting to the president's comments in an interview with reporters, Michael Koranchie, brother of Priscilla Koranchie, one of the kidnapped girls, said the president's words were rebaduring.
"Since the incident, we have not heard the president speak about it, so we have been relieved of his statement and hope that the police and other security agencies will work hard to find the girls.
"At first we thought the government was doing little, but the president's statement that the government was determined to fight to bring girls back to life is a good thing," he admitted.
The two suspects
At the same time, the Sekondi High Court, presided over by Judge Hanna Taylor, adjourned Wednesday the case for the second time, against Samuel Udoetuk Wills and John Oji, the suspects in the case.
The case was adjourned following a pleading by State Attorney, Adelaide Kobire Woode, that she would have had difficulty meeting the two defendants who were being held separately.
She said that the two people – Will and Oji – were detained respectively in Nsawam's medium security prisons and CID headquarters in Accra, and that she needed to gather information to change the act. charge so that the case can continue.
Samuel Udoetuk Wills had already been sentenced to 18 months in jail for escaping cells in December 2018 after his arrest.
Source link
