A former Director-General of the Criminal Investigative Department of the Police Service, COP Bright Oduro has called for a second opinion in the case involving the now murdered Takoradi Girls.
This he said will help bring the case to closure, adding that the DNA investigations must provide answers to some critical questions by the families of the girls.
His comment follows the rejection of the police DNA result on the remains of some human parts found around the residence of one of the suspected kidnappers.
Speaking to Accra based Citi FM, COP Oduro retired, cautioned the police against limiting the scope of their investigation to the suspect who is currently in police custody.
“Is up to the police now to investigate who killed them, the fact that Wills is in custody and he was involved in the kidnapping, does not mean that he was involved in the killing of the girls. Let’s know who killed them, why did they kill the girls, how were they killed and where. And then we will be able to link the killing to somebody,” he said.
Meanwhile, a Security Analyst, Dr Kwesi Aning has called for the setting up of a Commission of Enquiry into the professional conduct of the police in the matter of the murdered girls.
Dr Kwesi Aning said an introspection of the conduct of the police on the kidnapping case will help the service to investigate similar future occurrences
“There is a larger part of this problem about levels of professionalism and experts in terms of getting to the bottom of this case. That is why I’m calling for the Commission of Enquiry into the performance of the police service and its communication around their performance whether the girls have been found earlier on or not.
In the mean time, Parliament’s Defence and Interior Committee has been set to engage the families of the girls and to assuage their pain.
The Chairman of the Defence and Interior Committee of Parliament, Seth Acheampong, said “As part of our Ghanaian culture, we need to also show our traditions and beliefs by going to sympathise with the fellows who have lost their loved ones in this very tragic circumstance.”
