The Chairman of the National Peace Council (NPC), Rt Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante, has appealed to the families of the Takoradi girls who are now reported dead after a DNA test had been conducted on their remains to accept the reality of the situation.
According to him, though it is difficult for the families to accept the reality that they had lost their children, it was important to bring closure to the case.
The girls went missing in the Western Region between July and December 2018.
Addressing the media in Accra over the weekend , the Chairman of the Peace Council said: “We are all praying with them that they will accept the reality and the perpetrators brought to book, so that we will have reason to say that, indeed, justice has been done.â€
The police announced this month September that the skeletal remains of four persons retrieved from two locations in Sekondi-Takoradi in August 2019 had proved to be those of the four Takoradi girls who went missing at various places in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis.
Forensic and DNA tests conducted by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service on the remains confirmed the identities of the skeletons to be those of the missing girls.
While the family of the fourth victim, Priscilla Koranchie, has accepted the outcome of the police DNA examination and said it would wait for further details, the other three families have rejected the report.
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The three are the families of Ruth Abakah, Priscilla Bentum and Ruth Love Quayson.
The three families said they could not trust the outcome of the DNA tests, as announced by the police, and, therefore, demanded the reopening of investigations into the case.
Besides, they demanded the resignation of the Director-General of the CID, Commissioner of Police (COP) Mrs Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah; the Minister for the Interior, Mr Ambrose Dery, and the National Security Minister, Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah, whom they accused of exhibiting gross incompetence in the handling of the case.
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