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17.04.2015 Crime & Punishment

Nigerian Woman Jailed For Trafficking Girls

By Daily Guide
Nigerian Woman Jailed For Trafficking Girls
17.04.2015 LISTEN

THE GENDER Court in Kumasi has sentenced a 29-year-old Nigerian woman to five years in prison, for trafficking four girls from his native country to Ghana.

The court found Grace Daniel, who is a suspected prostitute, guilty for transporting the innocent girls, whose ages range from 17 to 21 years, to engage in prostitution in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital.

Presided over by Janet Animah Marfo, the court sentenced Grace Daniel, who had pleaded guilty for trafficking the ladies into the country.

The court also ordered Grace Daniel to compensate the girls with cash. They (girls) have since been taken back to Nigeria, by the police.

ASP Regina Mintah, Commander, Anti Human Trafficking Unit of the Ashanti Regional police, made this known in an interview with DAILY GUIDE.

She said around 11am on January 29, this year, her unit had information that a Nigerian lady was keeping four young ladies at Manu Guest House at Asokwa, a suburb of Kumasi.

Armed with that information, ASP Mintah said she and her men moved swiftly to the guest house where they rescued the four girls who were in a room.

During the police's invasion of the place, Grace Daniel had gone to town to buy mini-skirts which the girls would wear to work as prostitutes.

The four, who looked frightened, willingly told the police that Grace Daniel had brought them to Ghana to engage in prostitution against their wish.

According to ASP Regina Mintah, the police then laid ambush at the guest house and arrested Grace when she returned with the mini-skirts.

Upon interrogation, she admitted that she was the one that brought the girls from Nigeria to Ghana.

According to the convict, the girls approached her to help them find some work do and so she sponsored their trip to Ghana to work.

FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi

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