The Ghana Police Service has indicated that it may pursue legal action against Josephine Panyin Mensah, the Takoradi woman at the center of the contentious suspected fake pregnancy and kidnapping plot.
The acting Director-General in charge of Public Affairs at the Ghana Police Service, ACP Kwesi Ofori, said that the Police Service may take such action against her since she wasted their resources by fabricating such a false narrative and leading the police on a wild goose chase.
In an interview, ACP Kwesi Ofori said: “We are looking at the development closely and there is a greater possibility that she might appear before the court because she manufactured all these things with a figment of her own imagination and put the police into business. And we deployed a 40-member search team and even when we located her through public assistance, we took her to the hospital with policemen providing security and where she claimed to have attended antenatal clinics, it turned out to be false. We went in for a second opinion and got a team of doctors to work on her.”
“The police also placed an Assistant Commissioner of Police who is a criminal phycologist at her disposal who travelled from Accra to Takoradi and our Head of Counselling Department also went to Takoradi to assess her and offer assistance. So if you quantify all these things, it is a big investment, but the police will continue to offer good support to our people and offer assistance.”
ACP Kwesi Ofori previously said that Josephine Panyin Mensah faked her pregnancy in order to get her husband’s love and approval.
ACP Ofori informed that the woman’s choice to fake the pregnancy and abduction was motivated only by marital problems.
He emphasized, however, that Josephine had confessed to hatching the plan on her own, without the assistance of any relative.
“From her account, she said she did it alone just to satisfy her husband. It was a pure family issue that she wanted to portray that she was pregnant. She did all that for the admiration of her husband.”
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