Father of one of the abducted Takoradi girls has said his instincts tell him his daughter is dead.
Alex Koranchie, father of 18-year-old Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, who was abducted on December 18, 2018 at Nkroful, a suburb in Takoradi said this on Adom FM’s Current Affairs show, Burning Issues on Wednesday, September 18, 2019.
The demise of the four kidnapped girls was confirmed to the media by the Ghana Police Service after informing their families on Monday, September 16.
“The officers of the Ghana Police Service informed four families in Takoradi in the Western region that the DNA test conducted on samples discovered in the course of police investigations into the disappearance of four missing girls have turned positive as the remains of the girls,” a police statement said.
Though the remaining three families of the other girls are doubting the authenticity of the result and are calling for independent tests, Mr Koranchie has remained nonchalant.
“I cried the very day she was taken, thinking my daughter may never return to me and for now I’ll take it that she is dead and if she is alive too, God will reveal,” he told host, Akua Boakyewaa Yiadom.
Mr Koranchie, however, said “I cannot claim the bones of my daughter for burial until the other three families agree.”
Head of Forensic Department at the University of Cape Coast, Dr Richard Afoakwa, speaking on the same show, said “the position of the families will affect the trial process.”
He said the ability of the police to provide proof for the conviction of the suspects largely depends on the acceptance by the remaining families that the girls are dead.
”If the police say the girls are dead, then they can prove that they were killed by the suspects but the families of these same girls are saying the girls are not dead so how can the trial continue?” he asked.
Source: Adomonline.com | Adom News | Felix Anim-Appau| kwadwoasiedu2012@gmail.com
