A police driver in Tamale, Constable Emmanuel Atievor is alleged to have simultaneously impregnated two blood sisters (names withheld), aged 14 and 15. The two sisters are both class six pupils of the Police Barracks Primary School in Tamale. Sources at the school told the Public Agenda that upon seeing some changes in the bodies of the girls, the school authorities interrogated them to find out if they were pregnant, which they denied. Undeterred, the authorities took them to Bulpella Health Care Center for pregnancy tests, and it was confirmed that they were both four and a half months pregnant. When questioned about who had been 'sleeping with them' they disclosed that it was Bro. Emma. Asked who Bro. Emma was, they disclosed that Bro. Emma was a police Constable at the Barracks. The school authorities said following the revelation, a complaint was lodged at the police station, whose authorities arranged an identification parade for the two juveniles to identify the said Constable Emmanuel Atievor or Bro. Emma. Even before the identification parade, the two girls had confided in the authorities that on the eve of the parade, Bro. Emma tried to convince one of them not to identify him, but she should point at another police Constable and after that he (Constable Atievor) would help her to abort the pregnancy. "I refused to do that because no one has ever slept with me. The first time he slept with me, plenty blood came out, but he gave me only 5000 old Ghana cedis. Sometimes he gives me 10,000 cedis", said the I5-year old girl. She disclosed that the police Constable slept with her on four occasions and asked her not to tell anybody. The other one who is 14 said Bro. Emma slept with her once and she bled profusely. She said after that ordeal, they left the Barracks to stay at another part of Tamale. She said like her sister, she was also given 5000 old Ghana cedis. A family member said the two girls were brought from a village called Kigane to live with a bar operator called Daavi at the Police Baracks to attend school and also help the woman at the bar, where Bro. Emma is a regular customer. The family said Constable Emma usually leaves money with Daavi for food. The girls are sent in turns to send food to Bro. Emma, and that was how he took advantage of the girls. Day by day and night by night each of the girls was caught in Bro. Emma's web. After the pregnancies had been confirmed Daavi called Wofa Yaw, the father of the girls to come for his daughters because her bar had closed down and that she could no longer provide shelter for them. Wofa Yaw came from Kigane only to notice that his two daughters were pregnant. Wofa Yaw said all attempts to seek assistance from the police authorities have so far yielded no results. He said he pleaded with the authorities to ask Bro. Emma to help him abort the pregnancies. But the police authorities asked him to confront Bro. Emma himself. In an interview with the Regional Crime Officer Mr. E. Lartey, he said in the interest of the children the issue should be handled internally and should not be brought to the public domain. But to the surprise of the family of the girls, Bro. Emma still goes about his normal duties, as the future of the girls hangs in the balance. "God will punish Emmanuel and his collaborators at the Police Barracks in Tamale" was all Wofa Yaw, the father of the girls could say. He however, pleaded with human rights and children's rights advocates to come to the aid of the girls and save their future. Meanwhile, Constable Atievor has been threatening to deal with any journalist who would publish the information. Source: The Public Agenda