The President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in his meeting with invited journalists announced that his biggest regret this year was the unfortunate kidnapping and murder of the four Takoradi girls in the Western Region.
The media encounter is the fourth experience since the Presidentassumed office. It was used as a mode of enabling the President’s accountability of his three years in office.
The programme also encouraged necessary feedback from those present concerning policies made by his government.
“My biggest regret from the beginning of this year is the kidnapping and killing of the four girls in Takoradi.
-President Akufo-Addo
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President Akufo-Addo said this during his interaction with journalists at the Banquet Hall of the Jubilee House, in Accra.
The President made an effort to praise the Police Service for their efforts to identify the remains of the then missing girls and also empathised with the bereaved families for their loss.
The murdered girls are; Priscilla Blessing Bentum, 21, Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, 18, Ruth Love Quayson, 18 and Ruth Abeka,
The main suspects of the kidnapping and subsequent murder are Samuel Udoetuk Wills and John Orji, both Nigerians, who are being tried in Takoradi.
SOURCE: GNA