An Islamic Preacher Ibrahim Amevor who rescued a 20-year-old Nigerian trafficked to Koforidua in the Eastern Regional Capital of Ghana for sexual exploitation but thrown out after being impregnated is appealing to Nigeria High Commission in Ghana to come to the aide of the victim and baby.
Amevor wants the victim and the child repatriates and reintegrated into their family in Nigeria.
The victim who is currently mentally unstable is unable to provide any detailed information about her family in Nigeria.
The victim was part of many Nigerian girls trafficked to Koforidua for sexual exploitation.
“I am appealing to the Nigeria High Commissioner that many things are happening on the ground. Through this interview I want him to come in so that the child can go back to his family. Many things are happening on the ground he can commission some people to come on the ground and see things by themselves before it gets out of hand. Some women have taken it upon themselves to do no job but to traffic this young girl. These girls are not from the cities in Nigeria they are from typical villages”
Amevor went to the rescue of the victim who was then pregnant for six months on the streets of Koforidua.
He narrated that “It came to a point every evening whenever I’m going to town from 6:30 pm to 7:00 pm, I saw this girl sitting at the traffic on a bench for two weeks wearing the same dress so it kicked my heart to get closer to her. When I got close to her I started to interview her to find out what her problem was but I noticed she was pregnant …..She told me doesn’t have any place later she told me they are living in one house behind Normal technical. She told me she was hungry so I brought her home and gave her food so she stayed with me for a while up to 9:30 pm when I escorted her to go home. The following day I went to the house to look for her then they told me she is no more living there… a week after, she called me around 9:30 pm and said she came to total 2” Amevor narrated.
He continued, “At the time I met her she was 6 months to 7 months Pregnant… I asked her where her antenatal card was she told me she doesn’t have one. I sent her to the Alata chief but he was very sick so they directed me to the Ebo chairman. I went there but he told me he can’t handle it so he gave me a number to call and see the representative of the Nigeria Ambassador in the Eastern region so I went to him I explained everything to him with the girl as well and he told me that I should go that he will see us later after discussing the matter in a meeting But he never showed up.
Ibrahim Amevor further said “I consulted one of my legal practitioners and she told me to report to the police so I reported and wrote my statement. She gave us her mother’s number to call her but when we called the mother in Nigeria the mother sounded like a poor helpless woman. According to the girl if you reach Lagos you will take another bus and spend the night before you reach her hometown.
On April 31, 2022, the victim gave birth through Cesarean delivery at the Eastern Regional Hospital but suffered severe puerperal psychosis.
“They admitted us almost one week at the hospital then they discharged us, even the medical bill was a problem but some benevolent people they helped. After a week she started behaving strangely so I sent her to the hospital but the problem things are not easy what to eat even very difficult. Social welfare couldn’t help us when we went to them”.
Meanwhile, the Eastern Regional Vice-Chairman of the Association of Nigerians, Christian Ofor has called on the Ghana Police Service to help arrest kingpins involved in trafficking young girls from Nigeria to Ghana for sexual exploitation.
It comes after Journalist Obed Kojo Ansah’s investigation uncovered serious sex trafficking of Nigerian girls to Koforidua, Eastern Regional Capital of Ghana under the guise of coming to work in restaurants and shops in Ghana.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Obed Ansah
