The families of the girl who were kidnapped in Takoradi and later killed, have stated that they would be pleased if COP Maame Tiwaa Addo-Danquah had been sacked as the Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service rather than reassigned.
The Inspector-General of Police on Friday, 4 January 2019, announced COP Addo-Danquah’s reassignment alongside that of 23 other top police chiefs.
She is now to be the Director-General in charge of Welfare. She was replaced by COP Ken Yeboah.
It was under the tenure as COP Addo-Danquah as CID boss that the four girls went missing and killed.
During the search for the victims, COP Addo-Danquah held a press conference at which she announced to the whole world that the security agencies knew the whereabouts of the girls and urged their families “to keep keeping on” as efforts were made to rescue them.
A month after making that statement, she made a U-turn during a Mother’s Day interview on Atinka TV in which she said that she only made the earlier statement “to give hope to the police” in their attempt to find the girls.
She was roasted by the families of the girls as well as Ghanaians on social media for that gaffe.
On the back of her reassignment, a spokesman for the families, Mr Michael Hayford Grant and a sister of one of the kidnapped girls, Nana Adjoa Quayson, wondered, in an interview with Accra-based Citi FM, why COP Addo-Danquah was not sacked or forced to resign.
“The leaders of this country know what is good for them but they won’t do it. Initially, when the issue came up, we called on the CID boss to resign but they waited till now and rather moved her. For me, I do not know why they reassigned her. She has to resign or be sacked, that is what will be best. We, however, have confidence in the new IGP. So, as it stands now, the families are just hoping for the best”, he said.
