Ghanaian police announced on Friday that they foiled an attempt by a human trafficking syndicate in Accra to send 18 Nigerian girls to Europe to work as prostitutes.
The police raid was made possible by the undercover work of a journalist who has been investigating human trafficking for more than eight months.
Once his investigation over, Anas Aremeyaw Anas gave the police a tip-off which led to the arrest of about a dozen suspected traffickers and the rescuing of the girls.
Deputy director general of Criminal Investigations Department, Ken Yeboah, told journalists police had evidence that the girls were first taken to Accra to get Ghanaian passports to travel to Europe.
Several other girls from West African countries such as Benin, Burkina Faso and Togo have already been sent to Europe via Ghana as a transit point, Yeboah added.
Yeboah said investigations were being hampered because the ‘rescued’ girls are refusing to cooperate, while the police has launched a manhunt to arrest the mastermind behind the traffickers.
Source: GhanaWeb
