COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah is Executive Director of the Economic and Organized Crime Office
COP Tiwaa Addo Danquah appointed as EOCO boss
COP Tiwaa infamously spoke about whereabouts of missing Takoradi girls
Kevin Taylor challenges her appointment
US–based journalist and social commentator, Kevin Taylor, has hit hard at President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo over the appointment of COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah as the new Executive Director of the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO).
According to him, the former Director-General of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) does not deserve the position following her gross mishandling of the case involving the then missing Takoradi girls – now confirmed dead.
“You know Ghana is deeply a shithole under Akufo Addo when this inept woman is appointed the EOCO boss. Do you think any sensible President around the world will dare appoint Tiwaa to head EOCO when she failed in telling Ghanaians the whereabouts of the four missing Taadi girls till date?” he said.
Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah addressing journalists at a press conference on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, said the police knew the whereabouts of the kidnapped Takoradi girls but will not disclose it for their safety.
This is after the kidnapping case had become a topical issue in the country.
“It’s taken us over three months to even identify where the ladies are, and what we don’t want to do is do anything that will jeopardise the safety of that. So we are working very hard. All the stakeholders who are supposed to be on board are on board and hopefully, the girls will be brought back safe and sound,” she said at the time.
However, 5 months later, the then Acting Inspector General of Police James Oppong Buanuh announced that the results of the DNA test on remains retrieved in Takoradi from a suspect’s home were those of the four missing girls.
“The officers of the Ghana Police Service informed four families in Takoradi in the Western region that the DNA test conducted on samples discovered in the course of police investigations into the disappearance of four missing girls have turned positive as the remains of the girls.
“The GPS has with regret, therefore, informed the families that the remains are those of Ruth Abakah, Priscilla Blessing Bentum, Ruth Love Quayson and Priscilla Koranchie,” he said.