\u201cWe\n don\u2019t think that the girls have been sent out of the country. They are \nstill here in Ghana but the Nigerian High Commission is also talking to \nhis colleagues out there,\u201d Cynthia Morrison said Monday evening on PM Express<\/strong>, a current affairs programme on MultiTV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\n Gender and Social Protection Minister a meeting on Monday with the \nNigerian High Commissioner to Ghana in a bid to discuss ways to find the\n three young ladies also provided important leads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According\n to the Minister, the key suspect in the kidnapping saga, Samuel Udoetuk\n Wills, a Nigerian being held by police, had a fruitful chat with the \nHigh Commissioner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She\n said she could not share to the public details of the meeting between \nthe High Commissioner and the suspect, but they will help with efforts \nto find the girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mounting pressure<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Pressure has\n been mounting on the police and other state agencies to find three \nyoung ladies since the #Bringbackourtaadigirls kicked in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The girls \u2013 from separate families \u2013 were taken from various locations in Sekondi-Takoradi<\/a> metropolis of the Western Region since last year and nothing has been heard about their whereabouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Priscilla\n Blessing Bentum, 21, was the first to be taken in August 2018. The \nstudent left home for choir practice but never returned. Her worried \nfather reported her disappearance to the police 24 hours later. It is \nnow known that she was abducted at Kansaworodo, a suburb of Takoradi, an\n oil-rich town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Four months later, Ruth Love Quayeson also disappeared. The 18-year-old took a cab ride from her home in Diabene to the Butumagyedu Junction and never returned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, 15, was last seen on December 21, \n2018. She told her younger siblings she was taking a walk to a nearby \ntown, Nkroful and since then no one has heard from her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The parents and other residents who have lost their children through similar means on January 4, staged a protest in the town demanding action from the police whose lackadaisical approach to the issue<\/a>, they believe, is the reason their children remain missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Priscilla](\"http:\/\/photos.myjoyonline.com\/photos\/news\/201901\/3745823139117_3782760407361.jpg\")
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