NIGERIAN ARRESTED FOR LURING TRAFFICKED COLLEAGUE INTO PROSTITUTION

April 4, 2022
3 years ago

An jobless Nigerian woman, 25, was remanded in police prison by an Accra Circuit Court after luring her colleagues to Ghana to participate in prostitution.

 

Angel Ubah, an unemployed man charged with trafficking in persons, pled guilty.

Mrs Ellen Ofei Ayeh, the court's president, found the accused guilty on her own plea and postponed the sentencing.

The court also ordered that the accused be subjected to a pregnancy test.

 

Chief Inspector Isaac Anquandah, prosecuting, stated that the complainant in the case is Blessing Ekele.

The accused and complainant, he added, are both Nigerians who live at Obinim Guest House at Agyiriganor Junction, Accra.

According to Chief Inspector Anquandah, the accused colluded with her Nigerian syndicate, Chioma and Adah, in February this year to recruit, transport, and traffic the complainant from Nigeria to Ghana.

 

According to the prosecution, while on her trip to Ghana, the accused promised the victim that there were employment available, and when she arrived, the accused drove her from Spintex to Obinim Guest House.

 

According to Mr Anquandah, the accused informed the victim the next day that the job she promised her did not exist and that her only option was to engage in prostitution, to which the victim informed the accused that prostitution is illegal in her culture and that if she engages in it, she will be arrested.