The disappearance of three young girls through kidnapping is a national emergency. It is a scary matter when, especially, the Police appear helpless in bringing them back to their parents.
This story is worrying and deserving of a major intervention, beyond a regional police command more so when public confidence in the police is beginning to wane rapidly.
An impression that the law enforcement system is unable to protect our girls against the backdrop of a seeming dawning of kidnapping in a relatively peaceful country as Ghana is enough to cause apprehension even in the most stoic.
While we sympathise with the regional police command in the face of their near hopelessness in breaking the jinx surrounding the disappeared girls, the situation on our hands supersedes all other emotions.
We demand results, especially, since there is a major suspect in their hands. If within the next couple of days the regional command is unable to extract valuable information that can lead to the rescue of our girls, the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) headquarters must take over the case and adopt a more effective direction.
With a bird in hand, the excuse of his not forthcoming with valuable information is untenable and therefore unacceptable. This excuse should not be originating from the Western Regional Police Command because it presupposes a state of hopelessness no wonder the suspect was able to outwit the agency and fled albeit briefly.
Extracting such valuable information or leads is a skill, an attribute of every good cop in the CID. There is no time on our hands because the condition of the girls is very crucial. Since the suspect in the police custody is linked to an earlier kidnapping, he should be forced to release important information and not the chaff he is giving out now.
The story would have been different were the suspect still at large after breaking cell earlier.
The police spokesperson for the region has assured us that they are doing so much to rescue the girls but their efforts have so far yielded no dividend. We are getting disappointed and even frustrated.
We dread the arrival into the country the Nigerian security malady of kidnappings which has rocked the country so badly that some highways have become too dangerous for the traveling public.
With the suspect in the hands of the police being a Nigerian, the fear is that the kidnapping trend is making a debut in the country. We must stop it now before it gains a foothold in a virgin land bereft of the security shortcoming. We are not used to such nonsense and would not allow it to land let gain a foothold.
Our girls must be safe come what may. All hands must be on deck.