The mother of a disappeared police bodyguard has appealed to the Police Administration to declare the status of her son if dead or alive to enable the family perform the necessary customary rites.
Number 38222 General L/Cpl Michael Adamtey Odonkor, bodyguard of the then Director General of Police Operations, Commissioner of Police (COP) and later Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. John Kudalor, on Tuesday September 22, 2009, disappeared and his whereabouts unknown till date.
Madam Elizabeth Teiko Odonkor, 69, speaking to The Chronicle from her base at Opesika in the Yilo Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region, stated that the unknown status of her son, either dead or alive, had caused sleepless nights, not to her alone, but also the entire family and associates.
The Manye (Queenmother), as she is affectionately called, went on that for the past thirteen years and eight months, she had been living with nightmares and not knowing what to do.
“Without the police telling me anything, I feel incomplete, especially now that his father also died six years ago,” she stated amid sobbing.
In the morning of that fateful Tuesday, L/Cpl Odonkor prepared his outfits and readied for work, more so to meet his boss who had travelled to China and was expected at the airport.
His wife, also a policewoman, took his toothbrush and paste to the bathhouse at the Tema Newtown police barracks where they lived.
After having her bath, the wife returned to their room only to meet his absence.
When he was not showing up, a report was made at the Charge Office for investigations to commence.
COP Kudalor, together with his wife, on a number of occasions visited the family of L/Cpl Odonkor and assured them of investigations into the whereabouts of their son.
In 2011, workmen of the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) undertaking excavation at Tema Newtown landed on some human bones, which were collected by the detectives and sent to the Police Forensic Laboratory for analysis.
As part of the scientific investigation, the mother was brought down for the DNA test.
Since then, there has not been any information on whether the analysis took place and the outcome.
