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The Acting Director of the ECOWAS Multinational Maritime Coordination Centre, Commander Yussif Benning has faulted the Fisheries Commission for failing to constitute an initial search party to find the missing Ghanaian fishing observer.<\/p>\n

One Emmanuel Essien, a fishing observer assigned to the Meng Xin 15, a Chinese Vessel operating in Ghana, has been\u00a0reported missing<\/strong>\u00a0f<\/span>or about three weeks.<\/p>\n

The Fisheries Commission has said the crew of Chinese fishing vessel were arrested, over the disappearance of a fishing observer and later\u00a0granted bail<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a Citi News<\/strong> interview, Commander Yussif Benning maintained that the observer cannot be declared missing when the Fisheries Commission has not instituted a search.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFor the observer to be declared officially missing in our jurisdiction, there has to be a rescue and search [exercise] at the area where he got missing. Based on the findings, then the state can now make an official declaration that he is indeed missing. But, the fisheries commission which received the information and controls the vessel are the ones to kick in this process. For me, the first thing which needs to be done parallel to what the police are doing at the shore is an official search before we can put the docks together and say that he got missing in this general area.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n