Ghana steps up investigation into killing of Ghanaians in Gambia

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Accra, Ghana - Ghana has announced that a seven-member government delegation
will be in the Gambia Friday as part of the continuing investigations into
the murder of eight Ghanaians and disappearance of about 44 others in July
2005.

The incident occurred while the Ghanaians were on their way to Europe
through Senegal, an official statement said in Ghana's capital, Accra,
Thursday.

Political parties, human rights groups and civil society organisations have
been piling pressure on the government to push the Gambian government to
bring the perpetrators to book.

They were poised to demonstrate against President Yahya Jammeh at the AU
Summit hosted by Ghana in July, but the Gambian leader stayed away.

The statement said the delegation, comprising experts from the Criminal
Investigations Department, Ghana Police, Attorney General's Department,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ministry of Information, is working in
close collaboration with the Ghana Mission in Dakar, Senegal, and other
contacts in the Gambia on the matter.

It said "the final phase of Ghana's investigations" was due for completion
in September 2007, after which a final and comprehensive report would be
presented to the Government.

Ghana's President John Agyekum Kufuor, on receiving the report in 2005, sent
a high level fact-finding mission to the Gambia to meet with President
Jammeh and high-ranking Gambian security officials on the matter.

During its first visit to the Gambia, the Ghana fact-finding mission
proposed a joint Ghana-Gambia investigative effort to unravel the
circumstances leading to the murder/disappearance.

The proposal was accepted by President Jammeh, who pledged his country's
full co-operation to unearth the truth.

"Subsequently, a number of visits were undertaken to the Gambia,
underscoring the Ghana government's commitment to pressurize the Gambian
government's to consider all means available to deal with the matter," the
statement added.

Accra - 23/08/2007

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