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A Nigerian commercial sex worker has been sentenced to five years imprisonment in hard labor for trafficking young girls into prostitution in Konongo in the Ashanti region, Ghana.

According to police prosecution, “the accused person has been trafficking young girls from Nigeria to Konongo, exploited  them in prostitution, with some of them being subjected to abuse”.

Her latest victims were aged between 17 and 24 years.

On April 23, 2024, police received a complaint from a resident of Konongo about the treatment being meted out to the victims by the accused.

The police detected that the victims were locked up in a room, and the whereabouts of the accused person were unknown.

The court, presided over by His Honour Fred Obikyere, was told how the lady, tasked her victims, who had worked between 3-months and 2-weeks, to make a daily remittance of GH 500 to her. This amounts to a total of GH 89,000.

The court sentenced the accused person to 5 years in hard labor for trafficking and 12 months for causing harm. Both sentences will run concurrently.

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