CID’s Tiwaa “Savage” Hot As Calls For Dismissal And Arrest intensifies

Angry family members of the four victims of the gruesome Takoradi kidnapping have warned that they want Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) DCOP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah must be sacked and prosecuted for the “grossly incompetent” she handled investigations into the kidnapping.

The family in an open-air press conference in Takoradi today also demanded the head of Bryan Acheampong, the Minister of State in Charge of National Security, the Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, and the National Security Minister, Albert Kan-Dapaah.

According to a spokesperson for the families, Mr. Micheal Grant Hayford, they are suspecting a foul play on the part of the Police following the announcement that DNA results turned positive on pieces of bones found close the residents of the alleged kidnappers in Takoradi.

They warn the President that if these demands are not met, they will not be responsible for the possible repercussions. Already, Whatsup News has gathered that a number of police officers stationed in a suburb of Takoradi have been chased off by angry residents.

Prior to this, the security capos have assured the families of Ruth Abakah, Priscilla Kuranchie, Ruth Love Quayson and Priscilla Blessing Bentum that the girls were alive and were on the verge of being rescued. DCOP Tiwaa Danquah held an infamous press conference in April 2019 saying that the police knew the whereabouts of the girls and thus the family should “keep on keeping on”.

Not long afterwards, Bryan Acheampong announced that intelligence reports show that the girls were alive but have been smuggled out of the country. Several reassuring messages have since been given to the family before the sudden announcement of a controversial DNA result saying they had all along been killed in Takoradi.

The four girls had been arrested mid-2018 by alleged ransom kidnappers of Nigerian origin. One of the suspects Samuel Udoetek-Wills was picked up by the police but escaped through the reported help of some police officers. He was later picked as his fate still hangs in the balance.

The family have expressed doubt that the so-called DNA test is true as the Police Service has refused to release details of the report to them. One of the family members said Udoetek-Willis had confessed that the girls were not killed.

The circumstance under which the DNA confirmation of the girls’ death was announced by the police Inspector-General of Police James Oppong Boanuh has also raised serious suspicions as the family were not officially informed before the presser was held to announce the girls’ death.

Meanwhile, a veteran lawyer and a former legislator, John Ndebugri, has backed calls by the victims’ family for DCOP Tiwaa Addo-Danquah to be arrested for the serious security breach around the incident.

 “She said that they knew where they [kidnapped girls] were, she must be an accomplice in this matter. This is the situation where a person like that should be arrested immediately. These girls were abducted at different times from different places and the body parts that were found were found at a commonplace. At a certain point, she said she knew where the girls were. How is it that they knew where the girls were and later on they mysteriously went to some septic tank and found remains of the people there. We must be serious in this country,” Ndebugri told Accra-based CITI FM.

 “I am saying that she must be arrested and cross-examined in court. The charge of the State is to arrest her. She is a good candidate for arrest otherwise this case cannot come to a rest,” he charged.