{"id":681852,"date":"2019-08-15T10:40:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T10:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p>A\ntwo-member medical team from the Police Hospital in Accra\nyesterday arrived at the Western Regional Police Headquarters in Sekondi, Western\nRegion to collect DNA samples from the families of the four kidnapped girls in\nthe Sekondi-Takora"},"modified":"2019-08-15T10:40:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T10:40:14","slug":"dna-tests-on-tdi-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/15\/dna-tests-on-tdi-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"DNA Tests On T\u2019di Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A<br \/>\ntwo-member medical team from the Police Hospital in Accra<br \/>\nyesterday arrived at the Western Regional Police Headquarters in Sekondi, Western<br \/>\nRegion to collect DNA samples from the families of the four kidnapped girls in<br \/>\nthe Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nteam arrived around 1:30 p.m. following the assurance by the acting Inspector-General<br \/>\nof Police, Mr. James Oppong-Boanuh, to thoroughly investigate the matter when<br \/>\nhe paid a visit to the families of the four missing girls last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nDNA samples were to help the police determine the identity of some human<br \/>\nremains recently retrieved from a septic tank at Kansaworodo, a suburb of<br \/>\nTakoradi, where the key suspect, Samuel Udoetuk Wills, resided.<\/p>\n<p>A<br \/>\nfourth set of remains was also discovered at Nkroful Ridge in Takoradi near<br \/>\nwhere the Nigerian suspect was hiding after breaking cells from a police<br \/>\nstation in the metropolis.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>DAILY<br \/>\nGUIDE<\/em><\/strong> gathered that the tests<br \/>\nwere conducted by two male doctors of the Police Hospital made up of a<br \/>\nSuperintendent and a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP).<\/p>\n<p>Contrary<br \/>\nto the perception that blood samples could be taken from families of the kidnapped<br \/>\ngirls for the tests, <strong><em>DAILY GUIDE<\/em><\/strong> gathered that the two<br \/>\nmale doctors rather used a long thin stick which looked like a cotton bud to<br \/>\ntake the DNA samples; there was no blood drawn.<\/p>\n<p>A<br \/>\npolice source said the thin stick was put in the mouth of the family members<br \/>\nwho were represented by two persons each to help match the human remains<br \/>\ndiscovered barely two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Michael<br \/>\nGrant Hayford, who claims to be the spokesperson of the family members,<br \/>\nconfirmed that the families sent two representatives each and claimed that the police<br \/>\nindicated they expected to complete matching the samples between two weeks and<br \/>\none month.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nspokesperson said that had there been an IGP like the current one, their girls<br \/>\nwould have been found long ago, adding \u201cthe acting IGP, as you are aware, paid<br \/>\na visit to the four families of the girls kidnapped; something his predecessor<br \/>\nfailed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According<br \/>\nto him, the fourth missing girl, Ruth Abakah, was the first to be kidnapped but<br \/>\nwhen the matter was reported to the Takoradi police, they were told to keep<br \/>\nmute, as making noise about it would make the suspects escape with them.<\/p>\n<p>He<br \/>\nmentioned that the family members now have the confidence that the new IGP<br \/>\nwould work to get to the bottom of the kidnap cases that have rocked the<br \/>\nregion, saying they have been touched by the demonstration of goodwill exhibited<br \/>\nby Mr. Oppong-Boanuh.<\/p>\n<p>Priscilla<br \/>\nBlessing Bentum, 21, a third-year student of the University of Education,<br \/>\nWinneba, was kidnapped on 17th August 2018 at Kansaworodo and Ruth Love<br \/>\nQuayson, 18, a Fijai Senior High School leaver in Sekondi, was kidnapped on 4th<br \/>\nDecember 2018 at Butumegyabu junction in Takoradi.<\/p>\n<p>PiscillaMantebeaKuranchie, 15, a first-year student of Sekondi College, was kidnapped on 21st December 2018 at a spot near Nkroful junction and the fourth victim, Ruth Abakah, a former student of Diabene Senior High School was last seen on July 29, 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-member medical team from the Police Hospital in Accra yesterday arrived at the Western Regional Police Headquarters in Sekondi, Western Region to collect DNA samples from the families of the four kidnapped girls in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis. 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