Member of the Ghana National Association of Certificated Counsellors (GNACC), Counsellor Daniel Fenyi, has expressed disappointment in the Western Regional Minister Hon. Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah over his recent statements regarding the Takoradi kidnap case.
On his part, the Regional Minister did wrong by leaking out such “intelligent” information on the Takoradi kidnap case to the public at a time when the atmosphere was tense.
Expressing his view on the incident, Daniel Fenyi stated on the Happy Morning Show: “This issue is a matter of high security intelligence, so it is not every information you give out to the public even if the lady wasn’t pregnant. When you look at the climate and atmosphere and environment, was it right for the minister to have released such an information at this time. So, I am giving him an extreme benefit of doubt that the lady was not pregnant. In any case, is the pregnancy even the issue or the kidnapping? Are we not overly concentrating on what we shouldn’t be concentrating on? If the lady was not even pregnant, does it make kidnapping a right social activity?”
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The counsellor noted that, the minister, after he had received the information about the “pregnant” lady should have made his own investigations in the health facility the woman had frequented before coming out with a statement.
Meanwhile, the Ghana Police Service says its preliminary investigations on the ‘missing’ Takoradi pregnant woman’s case indicate that she was never pregnant within the period under review, following medical examination by medical doctors at the Axim Government Hospital.
According to the police, it relied heavily on medical experts to arrive at that conclusion.
What the Minister Said
The Western Regional Minister, Mr. Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah disclosed that a preliminary observation by a doctor on the 28-year-old pregnant woman who got missing last week in Takoradi and was found in Axim has shown that she was not pregnant.
Subsequently, the Regional Minister has asked the police to investigate the woman, husband and the mother.
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“I want to place on record that the information and report given to me by the security agencies indicates that the woman, ‘she is not pregnant’.
The doctor who has been attending to her in Axim since she was found on Tuesday has said she was not pregnant.
Nobody has beaten her”, Mr Darko-Mensah told an Accra-based radio station in the local language Twi.