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Police chief won’t resign over serial killings

[Uganda] President Yoweri Museveni. IRIN
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.
Ghana’s Inspector General of Police, Peter Nanfuri, said he will not resign over the unsolved serial murder of 30 women despite increasing public pressure for him to quit, PANA has reported. “It would be a disgrace to resign. It will be cowardly and defeatist to do so,” the agency quoted him as saying at a news conference on Wednesday in the Ghanaian capital, Accra. The latest victim in the killings, which go back three years, was found early on Monday along a major highway linking the capital to the eastern port city of Tema. At least six women have been found murdered this year alone, four of them in the past two months. All share a common feature of being dumped naked with torn clothes left nearby, prompting protests by women groups which accuse the government of not doing enough to arrest the killer, the news agency said.

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