Amnesty International Ghana has asked the Ghana Police Service to do better than in its handling of the Takoradi kidnapping case.
Three girls have been missing for nearly six months, with a Nigerian national currently being held as a key suspect.
The suspect is, however, facing trial not for the kidnapping, but for escaping from police custody.
Families of the three girls have been piling pressure on authorities to rescue the girls.
Speaking to Citi News on the sidelines of Ghana’s independence parade ceremony in Takoradi yesterday, the Board Chairman of Amnesty International office in Ghana, George Aggrey, said the security agencies must do more to assure the affected families.
“The thing is that we expect the security to do regular briefing as to what they are doing. Again we also want to know what they are doing with their counterpart in Nigeria, because this gentleman is Nigerian. If we are able to know what they are doing then we would be reassured,” he said.
Amnesty International insists after 62 years of independence the country’s security services have no excuse for not being on top of their jobs.
“Having chalked 62, we are old enough to be independent in most areas of our life as a nation and most important of it all is security,when it comes to security, that is the area people can work in freedom, and as you are aware freedom and justice being the motto of this nation is something that we need to work towards.”” he said.
He also mentioned that what is currently of concerns to Amnesty International when it comes to the investigation and proceeding of the trial of the suspect are done with transparency.
“The very issue that comes to mind is the issue of the missing girls which is very important to some of us in Takoradi. And I believe that it is an issue that cuts across the entire region. We believe that security agencies can do more. We expect them to do regular briefing as to what they are doing and again what they are doing with their counterparts in Nigeria because this suspect is a Nigerian.”
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By: Farida Yusif |citinewsroom.com | Ghana
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