A women development organization, Africa Diva Foundation is has resume pressure on the Ghana Police Service to update the public on the progress made towards finding the three kidnapped Takoradi Girls almost a year ago.
According the organization in the press statement signed by its president, Clare Sablah and copied Awake News, “The three (3) missing Takoradi girls have become a public interest matter hence, the government and the security agencies have a duty to periodically inform the public and especially the families of the status of investigations of the missing girls.”
Almost a year ago, Ruth Quayson, Priscilla Blessing Bentum and Priscilla Koranchie went missing but they have since not been found.
This the foundation is saying though “We are known as people who hurriedly talk about issues and leave it unresolved after few weeks and then jump to fresh issues. But this time we want to assure the security agencies, the government, the general public and most importantly the mothers of the three (3) Takoradi missing girls that AFRICA DIVA FOUNDATION will not relent until full closure is brought to this matter”
The organization is worried that “The whole of this month, we haven’t heard any public statement on this issue and we think it is too long a silence”
“we are demanding an update statement from government and/or the Ghana Police Service on the current status of investigations on the missing girls of Takoradi” – the statement added
Read the full release:
PRESS RELEASE
DEMAND FOR UPDATES ON THE TAKORADI MISSING GIRLS
We are known as people who hurriedly talk about issues and leave it unresolved after few weeks and then jump to fresh issues. But this time we want to assure the security agencies, the government, the general public and most importantly the mothers of the three (3) Takoradi missing girls that AFRICA DIVA FOUNDATION will not relent until full closure is brought to this matter. In this regard, we wish to acknowledge the work Multimedia has done in sustaining the pressure on state actors as we search for the missing girls.
The three (3) missing Takoradi girls have become a public interest matter hence, the government and the security agencies have a duty to periodically inform the public and especially the families of the status of investigations of the missing girls.
The whole of this month, we haven’t heard any public statement on this issue and we think it is too long a silence, hence, we are demanding an update statement from government and/or the Ghana Police Service on the current status of investigations on the missing girls of Takoradi.
Next month will be about a year when these kidnaps occurred and we demand that the state and its agencies give us a full report on what they have been doing so far since this matter came to their attention. There are too many conflicting statements coming from government and its security agencies or actors and we want a proper sequential account of investigations so far.
Furthermore, we want the ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection to tell Ghanaians the support system they have in place to help the mothers of these girls.
Wherever the mothers of these three girls, identified as, Ruth Quayson, Priscilla Blessing Bentum and Priscilla Koranchie are, we pray that the good Lord will give them strength as we keep hope alive for the search of their children.
Signed by:
CLARE SABLAH
President
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By: Efo Korsi Senyo / awakenewsonline.com