{"id":673212,"date":"2019-08-06T11:03:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T11:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Alex Kuranchie, father of Priscilla<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Families\nof the three missing Takoradi girls have given conditions under which they will\nco-operate with experts undertaking the DNA tests to ascertain the identities\nof the hu"},"modified":"2019-08-06T11:03:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T11:03:38","slug":"well-reject-police-dna-dead-girls-families-cry-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/06\/well-reject-police-dna-dead-girls-families-cry-out\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ll Reject Police DNA \u2018Dead\u2019 Girls\u2019 Families Cry Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Alex Kuranchie, father of Priscilla<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Families<br \/>\nof the three missing Takoradi girls have given conditions under which they will<br \/>\nco-operate with experts undertaking the DNA tests to ascertain the identities<br \/>\nof the human remains found in a suburb of the Western Regional capital.<\/p>\n<p>Linda<br \/>\nQuayson, elder sister of Ruth Love Quayson, one of the missing girls, said the<br \/>\nfamilies would only co-operate when an independent doctor appointed by them is<br \/>\npresent when the tests are being undertaken by the experts.<\/p>\n<p>A<br \/>\nDNA is being carried out to establish whether or not the human remains<br \/>\nrecovered from a location near an uncompleted house at Kansaworodo near<br \/>\nTakoradi, where one of the suspected kidnappers lived, are those of the missing<br \/>\ngirls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DNA Test<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nDNA tests have been necessitated by the discovery of human remains after the<br \/>\nkey suspect in the kidnap of the three girls led police officers to a septic<br \/>\ntank at Kansaworodo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn<br \/>\nour part, we have not said anywhere that we will not avail ourselves for the<br \/>\nsaid tests. However, we the families of the three missing girls have resolved<br \/>\nthat we should be allowed to get an independent doctor present during the said<br \/>\ntests,\u201d she stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel<br \/>\nUdoetuk Wills is the suspected Nigerian kidnapper who led the police to the<br \/>\nseptic tank last Friday where some remains were retrieved. <\/p>\n<p>A<br \/>\npolice statement which later confirmed the operation to retrieve the human<br \/>\nremains and a subsequent DNA test to establish the details of the skeletal<br \/>\nparts were followed by the Western Regional Police Commander DCOP Redeemer<br \/>\nVincent Dedjoe and other superior officers visiting the families of the missing<br \/>\ngirls.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nregional commander and his team were said to have informed the families about<br \/>\nthe development and the need for them to co-operate in the forensic and DNA<br \/>\ntests to be conducted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where is Ametepey?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Linda<br \/>\nQuayson told <strong><em>DAILY GUIDE<\/em><\/strong> after the meeting with the top police officers that<br \/>\na certain Ametepey, a detective with the CID, once demanded to know from the<br \/>\nfamilies of the missing girls the blood groups of the kidnapped victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe<br \/>\nwant to know the whereabouts of the CID to ask him some questions,\u201d Linda, who<br \/>\nappears to be the spokesperson of the families of the missing girls, said. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Important Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI<br \/>\nwant to ask whether it is possible for a dead body dumped in a septic tank to<br \/>\nget rotten to the extent that the bones would be broken into pieces after eight<br \/>\nmonths or one year.\u00a0 In fact, we don\u2019t<br \/>\nunderstand what is going on,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She<br \/>\nadded that when the police visited them on Saturday, they indicated that of the<br \/>\nthree heads they retrieved, one had a corn-roll hairstyle suspecting to be my<br \/>\nsister, and the other had weaved mesh and other one with a weave-on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo<br \/>\nin effect the police were trying to tell us that the human parts found might be<br \/>\nthat of the missing girls. But that is what we don\u2019t want to accept. We are<br \/>\nstill insisting that we should have an independent doctor in the<br \/>\ninvestigations,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blood Infusion <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According<br \/>\nto Linda Quayson, the CID had already been given the<br \/>\nblood groups of the victims in February this year but said \u201cwe did not know<br \/>\nwhat they used them for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Initially,<br \/>\nwe thought the girls had been found and were being given blood infusion that<br \/>\nwas why the CID requested the blood groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Victim\u2019s Father<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alexander<br \/>\nKojo Kuranchie, father of Priscilla Mantebea Kuranchie, another victim, also<br \/>\nindicated he would not avail himself to the police for any DNA test.<\/p>\n<p>According<br \/>\nto him, prior to the operation, the police could have called the parents to<br \/>\ninform them and allow them to even witness what was going on before taking<br \/>\nanything from the septic tank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut<br \/>\nthe police took the things from the septic tank to Accra before they came to<br \/>\ninform us, so I am in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen<br \/>\nan independent doctor is present, I will submit myself, but if the police are<br \/>\nthose going to do the test, I don\u2019t think I will be present,\u201d he indicated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Another Victim\u2019s Father<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Francis<br \/>\nBentum, father of Priscilla Blessing Bentum, the first victim to be kidnapped,<br \/>\nremarked: \u201cYes, we will not avail ourselves for any DNA test\u201d and declined to<br \/>\ncomment further.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nthree girls \u2013 Ruthlove Quayson, Priscilla Blessing Bentum and Priscilla<br \/>\nKoranchie \u2013 were kidnapped between August and December 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nprime suspect, Udoetuk Wills, and his alleged accomplice, John Oji, are<br \/>\ncurrently before a Sekondi High Court on the charges of conspiracy to commit<br \/>\ncrime, to wit kidnapping and kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Police Rebuttal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\npolice administration posted series of tweets on social media yesterday,<br \/>\ndebunking claims that the exhumation was done because the key suspect, Udoetuk Wills, gave them that piece of<br \/>\ninformation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice made the discovery as a result of the ongoing efforts at examining several angles of the investigation. Claims that a confession or tip-off to the discovery are untrue,\u201d the posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Kuranchie, father of Priscilla Families of the three missing Takoradi girls have given conditions under which they will co-operate with experts undertaking the DNA tests to ascertain the identities of the human remains found in a suburb of the Western Regional capital. 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