Two Nigerian women have been arrested for allegedly transporting six girls from Nigeria to Ghana in order to engage them in forced prostitution.
The suspects identified as Ify Mba, 33, and Amanda Eze Chioma, 23, were nabbed by men of the Baatsona Police Division in Accra.
The head of the police division, Chief Superintendent Felix K Cosmos, while briefing the media, said his men acting on tip-off, raided a hotel in Accra where the victims aged between 21 and 26 were being sexually exploited.
According to him, four victims were brought into the country on March 14, 2017 while the other two were brought to Ghana on March 22, 2017.
He disclosed that the suspects would be prosecuted before an Accra Circuit Court. While, the victims would be handed over to the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit to be transported to Nigeria,
The victims who claimed they were from Anambra, Enugu, Delta and Abia states, alleged that they were lured by the suspects with juicy deals.
Two of the victims, who refused to engage in prostitution, were locked up in a room and denied food by the mistresses.
However, all six of them were rescued and when they were interrogated, they said they were brought to Ghana by Ify Mba and Amanda Chioma on transit to Germany and Dubai to be employed as house helps.
One of them who spoke under anonymity told the media: “On arrival, we were locked up in a room where we were made to swear an oath to go into prostitution or in default go mad. We were later asked to work and pay an amount of 555,000 Naira, equivalent to $2,000 each before their release.
“Madame Chioma told us that we would use Ghana as a transit and that all our traveling documents would be done in Ghana. A taxi cab was hired from Nigeria to Ghana and Madam Ify met us on arrival and took us to the hotel.”
“The following morning, they fixed our hair and eye lashes. When I asked her the reason why we were to wear the lashes, she told me that it was to make us beautiful and smart.
“Realizing that we were to be used as prostitutes, I refused to wear the eye lashes and to engage in the prostitution and so together with my friend, we were locked up in the room and denied food until the police came in to rescue us.”
Another victim, who gave her name as Belinda, said that she had been in the country for two weeks and had paid 2,000 Naira to the mistresses as part of her fees through
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