Commercial sex workers displaced from Bula spot and Little Ben brothels in Koforidua have been flooding the streets to solicit sex.
The sex workers including minors mostly flood the total two (2) filling station, the Absa bank area to Legion hall and Adwenpa curtains to solicit sex.
However, the police have been chasing them away for unlawful assembly at night.
Mybrytfmonline.com have also observed that the displaced sex workers have now rented houses around spreadeagle and Nsukwao area to stay in whilst few including the sex traffickers still stay inside the Bula spot
There has been pressure mounting on the security agencies -Ghana Police service, and the Ghana Immigration Service, in particular, to clamp down on sex trafficking and commercial sex activities booming in Koforidua.
This follows a media investigation that revealed that Nigerian girls are trafficked to Koforidua in Ghana for sexual exploitation through the conspiracy of some Ghanaians and Nigerians under the pretext of securing decent and well-paying jobs for them in Ghana however forced into prostitution upon arrival.
The victims work for these agents who make at least 500 cedis daily each.
The Bula Spot and Little Ben area are two notorious brothels used by traffickers to house their victims in Koforidua.
Sadly, these facilities are located within 15 and 10 minutes walking distance respectively from the Regional Headquarters of Ghana Immigration Service in Koforidua.
Information gathered indicates that the Ghana Immigration Service, the Ghana Police Service, and the City authorities are in known the existence of these brothels and the sex trafficking and sex exploitation therein.
The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) is one of the security agencies mandated by the Human Trafficking Act, 2005 Act 694 to help combat the transnational crime of trafficking in Ghana
The Migration Management Bureau is a merger of three newly created Sections of the Ghana Immigration Service.
It is made up of the Anti-Human Trafficking Desk, the Migration Information Bureau, and the Refugee Desk.
The Anti-Human Trafficking Desk was set up in July 2006 in line with the ECOWAS Plan of Action against Trafficking in Persons, (2002-2003), under ‘Specialization and Training’ which requires that existing law enforcement structures create special units with a specific mandate to develop and effectively target operational activities to combat trafficking in Persons.
The Desk is supposed to coordinate capacity-building programs and mainstream anti-trafficking into the Service’s operations with an ultimate goal of contributing to Ghana’s efforts toward full compliance with the minimum standards for the elimination of Human Trafficking.
Meanwhile, since the expose’, some of the victims have been repatriated by the Nigerian High Commission in Ghana.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Obed Ansah
