Our Girls Not Dead! – T’di Girls Family Fight Back

The families of the Takoradi kidnapped girls have pooh-poohed the DNA test by the Ghana police suggesting the kidnapped girls are dead.

According to the Quayeson and Bentum Families whose kidnapped daughters the police claim are dead, foreign experts must carry out the DNA test instead of what the Ghana police has done.

The girls – Priscilla Blessing Bentum, 21, Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, 18; Ruth Love Quayson 18, and Ruth Abeka – were victims of a kidnapping and murdering syndicate in the Takoradi area, police have said.

Addressing a joint news conference at Diabene, a suburb in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis in the Western Region, John Entsie said the affected families never saw the said remains neither were the DNA report shown them before the announcement by the IGP.

“First of all we are disappointed in the Commander In Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces for the manner in which he has handled this whole unfortunate kidnapping story, he has demonstrated to us that ballot boxes are valuable to him than the lives of our sisters.

“If he want us to believe that his hands are clean in this development, then he should quickly fire CID Boss COP Tiwaa Addo Danquah and Bryan Acheampong for making us believe that our sisters were alive”, John Entsie demanded.

They have also issued a one week ultimatum to the police administration to release the said report to the families to enable them carry out their own independent test or incur their wrath.

The comments of the family comes barely twenty-four hours after the acting Inspector General of Police, James Oppong Boanuh, on Monday confirmed that results of DNA tests conducted on some human parts exhumed in a house in Takoradi are that of the four missing girls.

In August this year, a special police operation led to the discovery and exhumation of the bodies of the four missing Takoradi girls at Kasawrodo in the Western region.

This is not the first time the family have been up in arms with the police over the sloppy and unprofessional manner they had handled the case.

Presidential Snub

The family members of Ruth Love Quayson, on Monday snubbed a phone call placed to them by President Akufo-Addo.

The President had placed the call through a senior police officer who was with the family moments after the police announced the results of the DNA test, to condole with them, they said.

However, an uncle of the missing girl – now declared dead – says the family refused to speak to Nana Akufo-Addo because he disrespected them.

Liar?

It may be recalled that at an April 2, 2019, news conference, the CID boss Tiwaa Addo-Danquah told reporters that the Police have discovered the whereabouts of the three girls and are closer to bringing them home.

“We know where the girls are,” she stated, a comment that attracted widespread criticisms including class on her to resign.

But the CID Boss laughed off those calls indicating that she would not resign.

Speaking at a Commonwealth Speaker series forum in Accra August 14, Maame Tiwaa Addo-Danquah said she did not apply for her position, hence it will be inappropriate to resign.

“I don’t need to resign, resigning is like resigning from the Ghana Police Service, so it’s not something that I have to resign and say I can longer be a Director-General CID, it is an appointment; it is like posting transfer.

“So I have to be transferred, when the time comes for me to be transferred, I will be transferred, I will be taken from the police service,” she noted.

Away

Meanwhile, Police officers on patrol in Diabene found themselves beating a sharp retreat when members of the community set upon them with hoots, boos, jeers and cheers.

There were chants of “Away, Away” and loud cacophonous clanging of pots and pans, the mainly female members of the community who had just finished a press conference at Diabene Market Square in Takoradi in the Western Region, drove the police away.