Attorney-General’s Office to give final directive on missing fish observer
Mr Essien went missing on a Chinese fishing vessel, Meng Xin, on July 5, 2019 when he was on fishing observer duty and has since not been found.
The Attorney-General’s Office in the coming weeks will give its final directives regarding the missing of Mr Emmanuel Essien, a fish observer, who disappeared on a Chinese fishing vessel on July 5, 2019.
The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah made this known at a press briefing in Accra.
“I wrote a letter under my signature to the IGP, and they have responded. The Tema police have completed their investigations, and they have sent a duplicate case docket to the Attorney-General for study and advice. The AG upon study directed that they need to do further interrogation of some three persons, one Isaac Cudjoe, Dziwornu Ahabile and Antony Asiedu. They have done the further interrogation and have submitted this update to the Attorney-General and in about three weeks, the Attorney-General will come out with its final advice on this docket,” he said.
Mr Essien went missing on a Chinese fishing vessel, Meng Xin, on July 5, 2019 when he was on fishing observer duty and has since not been found.
His colleagues say the vessel returned from its deep-sea operations without Emmanuel.
It is standard practice to assign observers to foreign and local fishing vessels that fish in Ghanaian waters.
The observers also accused authorities of doing very little to find their colleague, adding that several of such complaints have not yielded any result.
The family of Mr. Essien have also been demanding answers from authorities over his whereabouts.
