Five persons — four females and a male — are missing from their Sekondi-Takoradi twin city abodes, a Ghana Police Facebook post has announced.
This comes at a time when people in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis and many Ghanaians are still reeling from the shock about the kidnapping of four young girls in Takoradi.
The Western Regional Police Command, which announced the disappearance of the five persons, has called for the support of the public to find the five missing persons.
The regional command has, however, stated that these are not kidnap cases, adding that relatives of the persons reported the cases to them hence their announcement on social media so that members of the public can assist them to locate them.
The Facebook announcement by the Police Service added that all the five persons went missing in September 2019.
According to the police, the missing persons are Charity Boah, 17, who left home on Monday, September 16, 2019 at about 4.30 am and was last seen at Ntankoful, near Takoradi.
The police said one of the missing persons left home with some personal belongings and an amount of GH¢200 and since then she has neither been seen nor heard from.
Another teenager, Fauzis Aliu, also 17, left home at about 7 pm on Tuesday, September 10, 2019 to an unknown location and was last seen at Tanokrom, near Takoradi.
Rosina Gyekyewaa, 13, according to the police, left home on Saturday, September 21, 2019 to the Takoradi Market Circle to sell chicken feed at about 4 pm and did not return home. The police said she was wearing a pair of blue jeans and a multi-coloured blouse.
Another missing person is 42-year-old Augustina Koomson, a Togolese and a resident of Apremdo, near Takoradi. He also left home for work on September 12, 2019.
The only male, Kwame Krah, said to be deaf and dumb, left home on September 30, 2019 at about 9.30 am to purchase an engine at Beposo or Shama Junction has since not returned home. He was last seen around Anto, near Kojokrom in the Western Region.
The police are asking the public to provide them with relevant pieces of information on the whereabouts of the missing persons via its toll-free number 1919 or 18555 or report to the nearest Police Station.
When DAILY GUIDE contacted the Western Regional Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Olivia Ewurabena Adiku, she confirmed the announcement on the Facebook page of the police and added that relatives of the missing persons reported the cases.
“The relatives came to report the cases to the police and we did the publication. This is a normal practice. When such cases are reported we wait for sometime if the missing persons do not return then we publish for the public to help us know their whereabouts,” she added.
She made it clear that “these are not kidnapped cases. The persons have been reported missing and as part of our investigations we need to publish the cases with the police contact numbers. So we are pleading with the public to help us find them.”
Latest Development
Yesterday at about 10 am, three out of the five missing persons published had been found.
They are Fauzia Aliu, Augustina Koomson and Rosina Gyekyewaa.
Fauzia Aliu, 17, returned home on October 2, 2019 about 8 am. The father by name Aliu Suleman brought his daughter to the police on 4th October 2019.
The victim informed the police that she left home for Accra in search of her biological mother.
The 13-year-old Rosina Gyekyewaa was found loitering in Cape Coast by the police and was brought to the station on 5th October 2019 at 9:45 am by her grandmother, Martha Manu.
She said she learnt the mother lived in Kumasi so she was going to Kumasi to look for her because she didn’t want to stay with her grandmother.
Mr. Koomson, husband of Augustina Koomson, 42, who reported his wife as missing, informed the Kwesimintism Police that on October 2, 2019 that he had information that her wife was lodging with her brother at Osu in Accra; he had called the wife several times but did not pick his phone calls.
On 4th October 2019, the police were able to contact Augustina Koomson and she said that she was sick and living with her brother in Accra.
She also informed police that she was receiving treatment and would report herself to them when she returned to Takoradi.
From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi
