President Nana Akufo-Addo has given assurances that the government and security agencies are doing everything possible to ensure that the missing Takoradi girls are reunited with their family.
According to him, the government is vigorously working to rescue the girls but has been discrete with its work.
The President made the statement on day two of his tour of the Western Region on Wednesday.
“All efforts are being made to bring back the girls. The fact that not much information has been out in the public domain does not imply that the state or security agencies are not working hard to ensure their safe return to their families,” the President said.
The whereabouts of the three missing Takoradi girls, Ruthlove Quayson, Priscilla Blessing Bentum and Priscilla Koranchie who were kidnapped between August and December 2018 is yet to be known several months after the issue gained national prominence.
Two suspects, both Nigerians are currently facing trial for their alleged involvement in the crime.
Meanwhile, the Sekondi High Court, presided over by Justice Hanna Taylor, on Wednesday, for the second time adjourned the case against Samuel Udoetuk Wills and John Oji, the suspects in the case.
The adjournment of the case followed a plea by the State Attorney, Adelaide Kobire Woode, that she had a difficulty meeting the two accused who were being kept separately, at the Nsawam Medium Security Prisons and the CID head office in Accra, to gather information to amend the fact sheet for the case to proceed.
The anxious families have spent the last few months demanding urgency from the police, but officials have asked the families to remain steadfast as they continue investigations.
The main suspect in the kidnapping, Sam Udoetuk Wills, has already been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for escaping from cells in December 2018 following his arrest.
Over the period, residents in the Takoradi Sekondi-metropolis have voiced concern over the pace of the investigations.
Some groups have held protests and also petitioned the President and the Sekondi Regional Coordinating Council over the case.
Source: Ghana/otecfmghana.com
