My name is not John & I was compelled to say the girls are dead – Suspect in kidnapped Taadi girls’ case

At the Takoradi Magistrate Court today, Thursday 18^th June, 2020, a suspect in the alleged murder of the four Takoradi girls said he was compelled to say all that he said in court earlier.

The suspect John Orji also mentioned that his real name is Prince and not John as in the docket and in media reports. “Ever since the guy was brought to court with his face covered, we started suspecting him” a sister of one of the ‘murdered’ girls told www.233times.net.

Again, he added that he was compelled to make a false confession that the girls are dead.

In February this year, suspects in the Takoradi kidnapping case were charged with murder at a Takoradi Magistrate Court. This was after the State Attorney, Adeliade Kobiri-Woode dropped the previous suit against two of the suspects – John Orji and Sam Udoetuk Wills, at the Sekondi High Court.

John Orji and Sam Udoetuk Wills had initially been charged with six counts of conspiracy to commit a crime to wit kidnapping and kidnapping after the disappearance of four girls from the Takoradi Metropolis.

The victims, Priscilla Bentum, Ruth Love Quayson, Priscilla Mantebea Kuranchie and Ruth Abakah who were kidnapped between July and December 2018 were eventually confirmed dead in August 2019.

The case has been adjourned to 17th July, 2020.

www.233times.net is following it keenly and would update Readers.

Author: Nana Kwesi Coomson (www.233times.net) @nkcoomson on Twitter/Instagram

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An Entrepreneur, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications Executive and Philanthropist. Editor-in-Chief of www.233times.com. A Senior Journalist with Ghanaian Chronicle Newspaper. An alumnus of Adisadel College where he read General Arts. His first degree is in Bachelor of Arts - Political Science (major) and History (minor) from the University of Ghana. He holds MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Energy with Public Relations (PR) from the Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. He is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow who studied at Clark Atlanta University in USA on the Business and Entrepreneurship track.

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