Kidnapped T’di Girls: Police must not be discriminatory

The residents of Takoradi in the Western Region have questioned the swift rescue of the two Canadian girls who were kidnapped last week at Ahodwo in the Ashanti Region.

The girls were abducted in Kumasi last week, sending panic waves among residence there and heightening security concern.

The police subsequently commenced a rescue operation which included a visit of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu and a partnership with Canadian experts.

National security operatives however rescued the girls on Wednesday at an undisclosed location.

But the residents of Takoradi said the action of the police is discriminatory.

According to them, nothing have been heard about the three girls who were kidnapped almost a year ago in the area.

They said although the girls were the first to had been kidnapped, little had been done to rescue them by the police.

Speaking on Accra based Starr FM, the Executive Director for the Ghana Institute of Governance and security, David Agbe also questioned how the operations on the Takoradi girls were handled.

“The way they handled the Takoradi issue close to almost on year now… those girls have not been traced, those give have not been rescued”

“How was those operations handled. Were our security operatives not alert enough? Was it that the family couldn’t approach the security agencies immediately as the thing happened? Or what actually happened?

He therefore called on the security agencies to exhibit same professionalism used in rescuing the Canadian girls to bring back the Takoradi Girls.

Meanwhile a section of the public who spoke on Starr FM had these to say, “Why is it that the Canadian girls have been rescued? And mine nothing have been heard about them. This is very intimating. Why is it like that, look we have to serious as a country? We are all Ghanaians and we deserve respect and security. I am not happy at all as a Ghanaian”.

Another man commended the police for a good work do but urged the police to be professional in discharging their duty.

“I commend the Ghana police for this action they just took but I want to urge them to be serious in all actions. They shouldn’t be selective in some of the action s. Without them this country will not be lawless so we need them to be professional"