A minister of state under the Kufuor administration is ruffled over Mills’ directive to the Inspector General of Police to re-open investigations into the mysterious murder of women some eleven years ago. Nana Obiri Boahene told Joy News the directive will serve a “dangerous precedence.” President Mills early this week directed the IGP Paul Tawiah Quaye to bring closure to a matter that has for many years struck emotive cords among many Ghanaians, especially women. Thirty four women were gruesomely murdered under mysterious circumstances in 1999 and the months leading to the 2000 General elections. After years of investigations Charles Quansah was arrested, charged and found guilty in 2003 for some of the murders. He is said to have admitted killing nine of the 34 women, meaning there could still be a serial killer lurking. Deputy Information Minister Okudzeto Ablakwa in justifying the president’s call for a re-opening of investigations into the matter said criminal matters have no "expiry date". He said the “government needs to get to the bottom of the issue so that this bizarre incident will not happen again.” Mr Ablakwa dismissed assertions that the NDC government under ex-president Rawlings failed to investigate the matter, saying arrests were made but as fate may have it the government lost power in the year 2000 elections. But in a reaction Nana Obiri Boahene who was a minister of state at the interior ministry said specific call for investigation into the murders of the women was inappropriate. He said the President must be interested in all mysterious deaths that occurred under his administration and not to single out one in which somebody has been found guilty and handed a death sentence. He said the death of every Ghanaian is important, saying, the young men in Abgobgloshie who were murdered last year in broad day light and another chief of Busumfuor, Nana Kofi Drobo who was murdered in mysterious circumstances must also be of interest to the president. Nana Boahene said it is regrettable the seeming politicization of the murder of the women. Story by Nathan Gadugah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana