We won't object to families independent DNA test - Police

ACP David Eklu, Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service says they will not object to a decision by families of dead Takoradi girls to conduct an independent DNA test.

The police on Monday announced that the human remains dug from the main suspect's residence was that of the missing girls according to the DNA they conducted.

The families of the girls after this confirmation said they will not accept the results but will want an independent test to confirm what the police brought out.

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Many say that will be needless once the police DNA results were that of the girls but ACP Eklu says the police will not stand in the way of the families should they decide to do the independent test.

“The news on the girls isn’t a pleasant one. There are some concerns in the media which we may find difficulty understanding. We deal with the families on individual basis. If the families want the remains for independent tests we won’t object to that,” he told Starr News.

The families of the missing girls are not convinced by the DNA results from the Ghana Police Service.

Addressing a news conference at Diabene, a suburb in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis in the Western Region of Ghana John Entsie spokesperson to the families said they never saw the said remains neither were the DNA report shown them before the announcement by the IGP.

This is in contrast to what the acting Inspector General of Police James Oppong Boanuh said at the press breifing on Monday where he made it known that the police had already informed the families about the results of the DNA.

“Officers of the Ghana Police service informed four families in Takoradi in the Western Region of Ghana that DNA test conducted on some human remains discovered into the course of police investigations into the disappearance the four missing girls have turned positive, as the remains of the girls. The Ghana Police service has with regret informed the families that the DNA test confirmed the remains to be that of Ruth Abakah, Priscilla Kuranchie, Ruth Love Quayson, Priscilla Blessing Bentum.”

“Investigations now establish that the girls were victims of a serial kidnapping and murdering syndicate that operated in the Takoradi area.” The acting IGP said.

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