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Priscilla Blessing Bentum, Priscilla Mantebea Kuranchie and Ruth Love Quayson

It
is being claimed that the place, where the police exhumed the second skeleton
as part of investigations into the missing Takoradi girls in the Western Region,
used to be an old cemetery.

However,
the Assemblyman of the Nkroful-Fijai Electoral Area, Mark Cudjoe, told DAILY
GUIDE
yesterday that he had not been to the spot where the police
conducted the second exhumation exercise, and he could not be sure whether that
portion forms part of the area where the cemetery used to be at Nkroful
Junction in Takoradi. But some residents have claimed that the Nkroful area of
Takoradi used to be a cemetery.

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The
first exhumation, where three skeletons were believed to have been discovered from
the septic tank behind the uncompleted house where the key Nigerian suspect,
Samuel Udoetuk Wills, had been living, was at Kansaworodo in Takoradi which is
about 15 minutes’ drive from Nkroful Junction, and that place is not part of the old cemetery.

Already,
the spokesperson for the families of the three girls, Michael Grant Hayford,
appears to be watering down the key discovery of the second human remains by
claiming the spot used to be a cemetery.

“Let
me tell you today, the Anaji-Kansawrodo road used to be a cemetery and when the
road was being constructed, the cemetery was destroyed and buried bodies
removed. So several people went there and dug sand and carted them to their
homes as filling. So when it comes to Nkroful-Kansawrodo area there are plenty
of skeletons there… So we believe the skeletons found by the police are not that
of our daughters and sisters,” he said.

“If
it is skeletons the police are looking for, they should continue searching that
area and they will find more bones there. But we are not looking for bones; we
are looking for our daughters and sisters,” he added.

DNA Analysis

Having
said they would refuse any police request for DNA tests to be conducted to
ascertain the discovered human remains, the families were said to have agreed
to co-operate with the police eventually.

Priscilla
Bentum, Ruth Love Quayson and Priscilla Kuranchie have been missing for about a
year now and two suspects from Nigeria are being held responsible for their
kidnappings.

Michael
Hayford Grant confirmed on radio that the families would now avail themselves
for samples to be taken by forensic experts.

“It
was a very tough decision…The entire nation is interested in this. We want the
police to do their work and do the test and come up with the results. Out of
the results, the family will know the decision that will come out,” he said,
adding “since the police want to do their investigations, we want to give them
the benefit of the doubt for them to do it (investigations)…We have come to the
conclusion that we want to do it.”

Serial Killers

Already,
the police are said to be looking at possibilities that the Nigerians being
held in connection with the case might be serial killers.

The
reason is that the key suspect, Samuel Udoetuk Wills, who has given the
security agencies a tough time in revealing the whereabouts of the girls – more
than six months after his arrest – is said to have given a slight hint of what
might have happened to the girls.

Blood Sacrifice

A
thorough search on their social media accounts – particularly Facebook –
suggested that the gang had been communicating in coded language which is
pointing to rituals, including the use of blood for sacrifice.

Prosecutors
from the Attorney General’s Department, who have put the two Nigerians on trial
at the Sekondi High Court, indicated at the last trial that the Facebook chats
of the two accused persons, from the mobile phone of Samuel Udoetuk Wills, also
revealed discussions on drugs which could be administered to victims to throw
them into stupor, apart from the issues of blood used for sacrifice.

Preliminary Findings

Based
on the preliminary investigations, the prosecution was able to present to the
court a provisional fact sheet which suggested that apart from kidnapping, the
police were also looking at serial murderers.

Since
the ‘breakthrough’, the police have been working around the clock to crack the
case and it was one of such efforts last Friday that resulted in the exhumation
of skeletons believed to be three from the septic tank at Kansaworodo and
another in a well at Nkroful Junction.

Risky Job

The
kidnappers appeared to have initially sent the police on a wild goose chase and
some CID detectives have since been risking their lives outside Ghana including
travelling to Nigeria and other dangerous places undercover to get to the
bottom of the case.

Fiancée
Factor

Last
week, when the case was called at the Sekondi High Court, the prosecution said
Samuel Udoetuk Wills, in the wake of the kidnappings, was shuttling between
Takoradi in the Western Region and Koforidua in the Eastern Region where his
girlfriend lives.

The
prosecution mentioned the name of the fiancée as Emily Alimo who lives at
Atekyem, a surburb of Koforidua. He said the suspect spent at least three weeks
with her before returning to Takoradi.

According to the prosecution, it was the girlfriend who subsequently gave the particulars of the Facebook account of the suspect.

From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi

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