11 articles
The trial of the case involving the four kidnapped and murdered Takoradi girls has been adjourned to January 28, 2021. The Sekondi High Court presided over by His Lordship, Richard Adjei Frimpong, ensured that all the 23 witnesses to the case were brought to court to testify. The four girls were lat
Lead Medical Doctor of the forensic team that conducted DNA analysis on the skeletal remains of the four Takoradi Girls Superintendent Dr. Kofi Agyapong Afrifa has defended the conclusion of their report that there is a genetic relationship between the remains and parents of the victims. “Our DNA an
A family of one of the dead Takoradi girls has met the police administration requesting the skeletal remains for interment. Both parents of Ruth Abekah say they are satisfied with police investigations and ready to bury the child, who they believe is dead. In August this year, a team from the Ghana
A family of one of the dead Takoradi girls has met the police administration requesting the skeletal remains for interment. Both parents of Ruth Abekah say they are satisfied with police investigations and ready to bury the child, who they believe is dead. In August this year, a team from the Ghana
An uncle of the now-confirmed-dead Takoradi girls, Kwame Tawiah, has alleged that the Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, once called the family to say the suspected kidnappers wanted a ransom. He said the CI
Operatives of Nigeria's National Agency for the Prohibition in Trafficking of Persons (NAPTIP) have arrested a man accused of being involved in kidnapping Ghanaian girls to Nigeria. The suspect Chika Nnodim is believed to be part of a cross border criminal gang including kidnapping and have been und
The Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr James Oppong-Boanuh, has acceded to the request of the families of the four girls who have been missing in Takoradi since last year, to have their representatives witness the DNA and forensic tests to be conducted on the skeletons retrieved from a ces
The family of Ruthlove Quayson, one of the three Takoradi kidnapped girls, are confident the new Inspector General of Police James Oppong Boanuh will work to get to the bottom of the kidnap cases in the Western Region. According to the family, their renewed confidence is based on a demonstration of
President Nana Akufo-Addo and the Ghana Police Service can no longer be trusted to bring finality to the case of the three kidnapped Takoradi girls, private legal practitioner Edudzi Tamakloe has said. He argued the discovery of some body parts, which some say, could be that of the three girls, clea
A group of Ghanaian forensic science researchers are pushing for the government to de-couple the country’s Police forensic laboratory from the direct command of the Ghana Police Service. They contend that making the police forensic laboratory independent of the police administration, will ensure com
A forensic examination is scheduled to be conducted on the human remains discovered and retrieved from a sewage tank behind the home of the key suspect in the three kidnapped Takoradi girls' case. Ahead of the test, many residents who witnessed the Friday night operation at Kansaworodo by the Police
