The Director General of Criminal Investigations Department, (CID), DCOP, Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Dankwa has revealed that arrangements for expert investigators from the United States is underway to speed up investigations into the kidnapping of the three girls in Takoradi. Also an investigative team has been beefed up.
DCOP, Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo- Dankwa, disclosed this when she together with the top hierarchy of the Western Regional Police Command on Saturday, January 26, 2019, visited the families of the three kidnapped girls in separate meetings in the Western regional capital of Takoradi.
Among the entourage of the CID boss were the Regional Police Commander, DCOP Vincent Redeemer Dedjoe and his 2/IC ACP Edmund Ohene Bosompem, the Regional Crime Officer, ACP, James Amoako Acheamfour and his 2/IC, Supt. Alhaji Hussein Musah Awinaba, the Staff Officer DSP, Kweku Ayepah, the Regional Public Relations Officer, DSP Olivia Ewurabena Adiku, and the Takoradi District Police Commander, C/Supt. Peter Ofori Donkor.
Their visit was to assure the family of the police intensified efforts to rescue the girls.
The three reported kidnapping incidents in the Western Region have triggered a social media campaign by Ghanaians urging the police to be more aggressive in finding the missing girls.
The Public Relations Officer of the Western Regional Police Command, DSP Olivia Adiku, who confirmed this to an Accra based radio, ‘CitiFM said: “The police has been busy doing all it can to rescue the girls and also to prevent other Kidnapping incidents, but will soon make public what it has been doing”.
A sister of one of the Kidnapped girls, Nana Adjoa Quayson confirmed to CitiNews that the CID boss visited the family and promised to rescue her sister.
“The Police CID and the Regional Police Commander visited us here in Diabene ‘today’ (Saturday) and promised to rescue our sister and the other girls soon. She told us that they have even sent some officers outside the country to help locate where the girls have been taken to and also they will be bringing experts from abroad to help”.
Nana Adjoa said, the family is okay with the assurance from the CID boss: “ We are okay with the promise to bring back our sister. After all they are the people holding the suspect and they are the only people who can locate her so we are taking it like that with the hope that we will see our sister soon”.
In a related development, the Police in the Eastern Region on Saturday dawn arrested 15 persons in connection with the three ladies reported kidnapped in Takoradi last year.
The 15 suspects were arrested in Nuaso in Odumase in a swoop.
Odumasi Police Commander, ASP Harry Selormey, told Joy News the raid was done in collaboration with police from Takoradi.
He said a team of personnel from the Western Regional capital, where the ladies had gone missing, initiated the operation with relevant intelligence on where the suspects could be picked.
ACP Serlomey said all the Odumase police did was to assist to make the operation successful.
The 15 suspects whose identities are yet to be known have since been sent to the Police Headquarters in Accra as investigations continue.
