Retrieved Bodies Suspected To Be Those Of Missing Takoradi Girls

Human skeletons believed to be those of the three Takoradi missing girls has been exhumed from a septic tank in an uncompleted building in Kansawurodo, a suburb of Takoradi.

This follow months of anxiety and searching by families and Ghanaians in general for their safe return.

The operation was undertaken by the National Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and the Western regional police command.

The main suspect, Samuel Udeotuk-Wills, lived in the same house and is said to have led police officers who were dispatched from Accra to the location.

After almost three hours, the officers found skeletons suspected to be that of the missing girls in the septic tank. The remains were packed into cartons and taken to Accra where they would undergo DNA tests at the Police Forensic Laboratory.

Samuel Udeotuk-Wills deny any knowledge or involvement in the disappearance of the girls who were all kidnapped around the Takoradi metropolis within a space of four months.

Priscilla Blessing Bentum, 21, a third-year student of the University of Education, Winneba, was kidnapped at Kansawurodo on August 17, 2018.

Ruth Love Quayson, 18, a senior high school (SHS) graduate, who got abducted at Butumegyabu Junction on December 4, 2018.

Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, 15, a student of Sekondi College (SEKCO), was also kidnapped near the Nkroful Junction in Takoradi on December 21, 2018.