The three kidnap victims
Families
of the three kidnapped girls in Takoradi have called on the Police Administration
to investigate the policeman who allegedly aided the first suspect in the
kidnap case from the Takoradi police cells.
It
would be recalled that the first Nigerian suspected kidnapper, Samuel Udoetuk
Wills, who has been jailed for escaping from police cells, revealed during one
of the court proceedings that he was aided by a police officer to escape.
At
a joint news conference in Takoradi yesterday, the family members claimed that
after Samuel Wills was jailed for escaping from lawful custody, nothing was
heard about the allegation by the Nigerian. They said they later got to know
that two police officers had since been transferred from the Takoradi Division
of Police.
“We
are so desperate for news about our daughters and their whereabouts,” they said
and added that the loud silence by the government over the issue was worrying.
Michael
Koranchie, a brother of one of the girls, Priscilla Koranchie, said it was time
for the Ghana Police Service and some government officials to stop raising
their hopes about the missing girls and later ignore them. “They should also stop
the false information they give to you the media about the case,” he added.
According
to him, it had been over a month since the arrest of the second suspect in the
case, John Oji, yet they had received no information from the police.
“The
first suspect Samuel Wills has stated in court that the second suspect John Oji
knows the whereabouts of our girls and that should he (Oji) be found, he could
show where the girls are,” he said, adding “the Criminal Investigation
Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service led by COP Tiwaa Addo -Danquah
also organised a press conference to tell the whole country that they know
where the girls are.”
Continuing,
he said “the CID boss indicated that the girls were safe and they would be
brought home soon only for her to make a U-turn after media backslash to say
that she was misunderstood and that she only said that to comfort the grieving
family.”
“Mr
Bryan Acheampong was recently quoted as saying that the location of the girls
was known and that the security agencies were working assiduously to bring them
to their families. If you know where the girls are, why don’t you go and bring
them?”he queried.
“What
is most shocking is how the Ghana Police Service and National Security operatives
were able to gather all arsenal to rescue the two missing Canadian nationals
three weeks after they were reported missing,” adding “so we ask, why can’t the
same security agencies in the country use that Usain Bolt speed to bring back
our girls?”
It
would be recalled that immediately the Canadian girls were kidnapped, the
matter was reported to the police but in the case of the Takoradi girls, the
police got to know about the incidents more than three weeks after the
kidnappings.
The
police even said the families negotiated for ransom for the girls before they
got to know.
The families, therefore, called on the Christian Council of Ghana, the Muslim community, civil society groups and the diplomatic missions to intervene and help find the three kidnapped girls.
From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi
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