The Nigerian sex trafficking victim thrown out of a brothel in Koforidua in the Eastern region of Ghana after being pregnant has been repatriated to Nigeria on Thursday, August 11, 2022, by the Nigeria High Commission in Ghana in collaboration with some international partners.
She will be provided medical care, sponsored to learn a vocation, and be given a seed capital of $1,500.
20-year-old Somtooma (not her real name) was rescued from the streets of Koforidua by Ibrahim Amevor, a Good Samaritan sometimes early this year.
She was delivered on April 30, 2022, through Cesarean delivery at the Eastern Regional Hospital but suffered severe puerperal psychosis.
The nursing mother and baby have since been in the care of the Good Samaritan in his family house in Koforidua.
Christian Ofor, Vice President of the Nigerian Community in the Eastern region was deeply involved in the process.
Said the exercise has been successful.
Christian Ofor advised citizens of Nigeria particularly young girls not to fall to the deception of the traffickers to come to Ghana since there is no white color job available.
The victim is among many Nigerian girls trafficked to Bula Spot and Little Ben Brothels in Koforidua for sexual exploitation.
Ibrahim Amevor narrated that to Journalist Obed Kojo Ansah who investigated the sex trafficking menace “It came to a point every evening whenever I’m going to town from 6:30 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 was at 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”
“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”.
Ibrahim Amevor continued “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.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Obed Ansah
