{"id":681032,"date":"2019-08-14T14:37:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T14:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>IGP James Oppong-Boanuh (2nd right), COP Kofi Boakye (left), Alexander Kojo Kuranchie (middle) and others in Takoradi yesterday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nacting Inspector General of Police (IGP), James Oppong-Boanuh, has given an\nassu"},"modified":"2019-08-14T14:37:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T14:37:45","slug":"igp-storms-takoradi-over-missing-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/14\/igp-storms-takoradi-over-missing-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"IGP Storms Takoradi Over Missing Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>IGP James Oppong-Boanuh (2nd right), COP Kofi Boakye (left), Alexander Kojo Kuranchie (middle) and others in Takoradi yesterday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nacting Inspector General of Police (IGP), James Oppong-Boanuh, has given an<br \/>\nassurance that the Police Administration will not hesitate to punish police<br \/>\npersonnel who were negligent in the performance of their duties in the Takoradi<br \/>\nkidnapping cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere<br \/>\nwill be an after action review of the cases to see what went wrong and if there<br \/>\nis the need to punish negligence, it will be done,\u201d he indicated.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nIGP and his entourage, including COP Kofi Boakye, a former Western Regional<br \/>\nPolice Commander,\u00a0\u00a0 are in the region to<br \/>\nvisit the families of the Takoradi kidnapped girls to interact with them. His<br \/>\nmeeting with the families was held behind closed doors.<\/p>\n<p>However,<br \/>\nspeaking in an interview with <strong><em>DAILY GUIDE<\/em><\/strong>, ACP David Eklu, Director<br \/>\nGeneral Public Affairs of Ghana Police Service, explained that a few of the<br \/>\nfamily members had issues concerning the attitude of some police officers in<br \/>\nthe region towards the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe<br \/>\nIGP indicated that for every major operation, there is what we call an after<br \/>\naction review and we will look at the role the police played,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He<br \/>\npointed out that some of the family members commended some police officers for<br \/>\ntheir excellent job.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nIGP also confirmed to the family members that the experts who would be carrying<br \/>\nout the DNA tests would arrive in the region the next day.<\/p>\n<p>He,<br \/>\ntherefore, appealed to the family members to show co-operation during the<br \/>\ninvestigations.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nfamilies who\u00a0\u00a0 initially refused the<br \/>\npolice request for DNA tests to be conducted on their relations agreed to co-operate<br \/>\nwith the police.<\/p>\n<p>Francis<br \/>\nBentum, father of the first victim, Priscilla Blessing Bentum, told <strong><em>DAILY<br \/>\nGUIDE<\/em><\/strong> after the meeting that he would submit to the DNA test.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jail Break <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On<br \/>\nthe jail break by the key suspect Samuel Udoetuk Wills from the Takoradi Police<br \/>\ncells, ACP Eklu mentioned that four of the officers on duty had gone through<br \/>\ndisciplinary proceedings and the report sent to the Police Headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>He<br \/>\npointed out that the report was sent in July this year and was being reviewed<br \/>\nfor appropriate action.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liaison Officer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He<br \/>\nalso added that the police had appointed a family liaison officer, ACP Rev Fr.<br \/>\nGeorge Arthurs, Director of Religious Affairs at the Ghana Police Service, to<br \/>\nsupport the efforts of the Regional Police Command.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarring<br \/>\nany last minute change, we should begin the process of taking the samples for<br \/>\nthe DNA test today,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>ACP<br \/>\nEklu appealed passionately to the media to be circumspect on the issue saying \u201cso<br \/>\nfar the statement we have put out, we didn\u2019t conclude that the remains belonged<br \/>\nto the four missing girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He<br \/>\npointed out that the IGP was also in the region to brief the families on the<br \/>\nstages of the investigations and elicit their support to get to the bottom of<br \/>\nthe matter.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nIGP and his men later visited the family members of the alleged fourth victim,<br \/>\nRuth Abakah, at Nsuaem in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality of the region.<\/p>\n<p>This<br \/>\nvisit by the IGP comes after officials of the Western Regional Police Command<br \/>\nand a team of clinical psychologists and forensic experts from the Police<br \/>\nCriminal Investigations Department recently met the families to request DNA<br \/>\nsamples.<\/p>\n<p>The samples became necessary after police investigating the disappearances of the three girls \u2013 Priscilla Blessing Bentum, Ruth Love Quayson and Priscilla Kuranchie \u2013 found human parts in the sewage system near the home of Samuel Udoetuk Wills earlier in August.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IGP James Oppong-Boanuh (2nd right), COP Kofi Boakye (left), Alexander Kojo Kuranchie (middle) and others in Takoradi yesterday The acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), James Oppong-Boanuh, has given an assurance that the Police Administration will not hesitate to punish police personnel who were negligent in the performance of their duties in the Takoradi kidnapping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":681033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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