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Member of Parliament [MP] for Odododiodio constituency, Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuiye, is of the opinion that the government of the day together with the Ghana Police service have not treated the Takoradi kidnapped girls case with the needed professionalism it deserves.

“…They [government and police] treated this national interest story as one of those normal ones that the state leaves to die by itself,” he said. 

He urged the police service to charge the Daily Guide newspaper for "public deceit" in using the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) as its source in giving detailed reports on the whereabouts of the kidnapped girls.

According to him, current statements made by the President of the Republic concerning the story shows the police does not know the whereabouts of the girls as they claimed earlier on in a press conference held.

Commenting on the second-time meeting between NPP and NDC towards a lasting solution to eliminating vigilantism, the Odododiodio MP stated that issues of land guards must be treated as akin to that of vigilantism.

He added that persons who have found their way into the various security institutions by virtue of their vigilante acts, must be kicked out if they tend not to have the requisite qualifications to be recruited.

“Issues of land guards must be as well be treated as part of vigilantism....and unqualified security personnel be removed from security organizations no matter the year of admission,” he added.