CID takes over Alogboshie case

Page 3: Daily Graphic, February 24, 2009.
Story: Albert K. Salia
THE Crime Scene and Forensic Unit of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) is investigating the case at Alogboshie, near Achimota, where three children, all aged two, where found dead last Saturday.
The death of the three children, which was similar to the one recorded at Anyaa less than three weeks ago, has been given various interpretations, with some people reading ritualistic meanings into it.
The Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service, DSP Kwasi Ofori, told the Daily Graphic that the investigations would establish how the children got access to the house where the car was parked and also into the car.
He said they would also help to establish whether it was the children who opened the doors to the car but could not open them and come out or not.
He indicated that the investigations, which were being supervised by the Accra Regional CID, as well as the autopsy, would enable the police to get some leads.
“It is early yet to state what caused their death but I want to assure the public that the police will get to the bottom of these mysterious deaths,” he said.
DSP Ofori said the Police Administration took serious view of the case because it was the second case in three weeks, both involving three children and found in similar circumstances.
He said although no one had been arrested so far, the police had already spoken to the parents of the victims and neighbours.
He urged parents to monitor the movement of their children, while neighbours too played their part by monitoring children.
DSP Ofori also advised vehicle owners, whether the vehicles were abandoned or in use, to take precautionary measures to prevent a recurrence of the incident.
The bodies of the three boys were found in an abandoned Nissan Primera car in the area last Saturday.
The boys had earlier been reported missing, and after a six-hour search by their families and neighbours they were found dead in an abandoned car, with registration number GR 3656 R, parked in a house of one of their neighbours.
They were identified as Gabriel Kwofie and his cousin, Edem Asimenu, and their friend, Isaac Annoh.