Police doing a lot to unravel mystery surrounding missing T’di girls – ACP Eklu
The police administration says it is doing a lot to bring closure to the lingering issue of the three kidnapped Takoradi girls.
Director-General of Public Affairs for the Service, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) David Eklu, told The Ghana Report on Thursday the police administration has not slept on the matter ever since the case was reported to their outfit.
The police, he disclosed, has successfully carried out DNA Tests on remains found at the residence of one of the suspects in the alleged kidnapping will in the coming days continue with the next process to ensure they get to the bottom of the matter.
“If you follow the news, the IGP was in Takoradi on Tuesday (August 13, 2019) to seek the support of the four families and as I speak now, all the four families have availed themselves now for the DNA Test which has been done yesterday, so the next step is to follow the process. So, a lot has been done in unravelling the mystery surrounding the girls who went missing last year, ACP Eklu remarked.
In order to reduce incidents of kidnapping and other related criminal activities, the Director-General of Public Affairs said the police administration has intensified its public sensitization campaigns to make people more security conscious.
He said, “We are on 21 tv stations; our regions also do a lot of sensitization directly in the schools especially on kidnapping to reach a lot of schools and also on radio. Last year, we organized the Ghana Police Week nationwide where we did a lot of public engagement on education and sensitization and it is ongoing and even on our Ghana Police website, we have daily security tips and we also do social media campaigns on our facebook.”
ACP Eklu appealed to the general public to co-operate with the Ghana Police Service and other relevant agencies to fight crime in the country.
The three missing girls from Takoradi; Priscilla Blessing Bentum, Ruthlove Quayeson and Priscilla Mantsebeah Koranchie have been missing since 2018.
Samuel Udotek Wills, 28, was the first suspect to have been arrested by the police earlier this year over the alleged kidnapping.
But he soon escaped from police custody after being remanded in court for the offence of kidnapping.
He was later rearrested and sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for escaping from lawful custody.
The second suspect, John Oji, was also arrested by the police in neighbouring Togo.
Oji, has since been remanded into police custody while investigations into the matter continue.
The police in an operation recently found three skulls and the skeletal remains believed to be those of the three girls who went missing between August and December last year.
The cesspit from which the remains were found, serves the house from where Udoetuk-Willis rented a single room apartment.
A fourth set of skeletons was found in the uncompleted building from where the prime suspect was rearrested after his escape from lawful custody on December 30, 2018.
A third suspect, Chika John Nnodim was also arrested in Nigeria on August 5 this year in connection with the three missing Takoradi girls.
Chika was arrested in a joint operation carried out by personnel of the Ghana Police Service and their Nigerian counterparts.