The search for the three girls kidnapped in the Western Region has been intensified as a team of of investigators from the United Kingdom and the United States of America have arrived in the country to assist the Ghana police.

This comes after Ghanaian authorities petitioned the two countries to help locate the girls after the search by the Ghana Police has prove futile.

The girls who have gone missing between August 2018 and January 2019 have been identified as Ruth Quayson, Priscilla Blessing Bentum and Priscilla Koranchie.

Samuel Udoetuk-Wills, the Nigerian suspect who was arrested in connection with the case, has refused to give any leads to the police concerning the whereabouts of the missing girls.

He was re-arrested about a month ago after he escaped prison custody.

Meanwhile, the police over the weekend arrested 15 persons in connection with the kidnappings in the Eastern Region.

The suspects were arrested last Saturday dawn at Nuaso in Odumase.

The Director-General of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, DCOP Mrs. Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah and some top officials of the Western Regional Police Command visited the families of the victims on Saturday, 26 January 2019.