Trafficking Of Nigerian Teenage Girls To Ghana: Anambra Police Arrests Prime Suspect

By Suleiman Anyalewechi

The Anambra State Police Command on Thursday, September 5, 2024, said it has nabbed a prime suspect in the notorious, but lucrative, venture of human trafficking to neighouring African Countries, particularly Ghana.

The Source reports that of recent, many young Nigerian girls, and even teens, mostly from the South East and South South regions ,have been ferried to Ghana and other countries for either child labour, and/or as commercial s*x workers.

Only recently t,the Imo state Government, took steps to coordinate the rescue and safe return of a number of its young ones enslaved in Ghana by some members of human trafficking cartels.

A statement issued by the Anambra State Police Command Spokesperson, Tochukwu Ikenga, SP, said that the Commissioner of Police, CP Nnaghe Itam, in the face of the growing trend of human trafficking in the State, has issued a marching order for operatives to halt the ugly situation.

Ikenga informed that some of the victims of the arrested suspect who were earlier trafficked to Ghana have been returned to Nigeria.

He stated that most of the victims were under-aged persons whose ages range between 13 and 16 years.

According to Ikenga, concerted efforts are ongoing to smoke out the rest of the members of the trafficking cartel.

“The Suspect is currently undergoing interrogation with the Police. This will help in rescuing other victims and also track down other gang members” the police spokesman stated.

The arrest of the prime suspect, he said, followed  several reported cases of  missing persons mostly teenagers in the State in recent times .

He further stated that the state Commissioner of Police, has charged personnel to go all out and fish out those behind the disturbing surge in human trafficking in the State.