[ 2017-03-10 ]

Sex workers invade Tamale Police barracks
A battalion of commercial sex workers in the
Tamale metropolis in the Northern Region have
extended their business activities to the Regional
police headquarters barracks.

A monitoring by Graphic Online has showed that the
sex workers, including teenagers, report for work
at the police park where the Northern Regional
Prisons Service headquarters is also located
around 7pm every evening.

They dress in sexually provoking apparels to
patrol the roads around the barracks and the
Jubilee Park.

The activities of the sex workers have become a
talk in town. Apart from the barracks they operate
in other areas including the Bank of Ghana road,
Victory Cinema area around Aboabo, Nyohini,
Tohajie, and the enclave near Alhassan Hotel.

Many of them are believed to be from Nigeria,
Burkina Faso, Cote d'ivoire, and Togo.

Young girls

Last year, NORSAC, a Tamale-based Non-Governmental
Organisation (NGO) rescued some three young
Nigerian girls who had been brought to Tamale for
prostitution by an agent known for recruiting
Nigerian girls for such activities in Tamale.

Some of the young girls engaged in the business
especially at Tohajie on the road to the Northern
Regional Coordinating Council are believed to be
between 10 and 12 years.

When Graphic Online interacted with some of them
to find out why they were plying their trade close
to the police barracks, they said some clients
sometimes assault them physically and felt being
close to the police was a safe haven for them as a
way of putting fear in their clients.

Others also said some of their customers,
including security personnel preferred picking
them up near the police barracks.

Worrying

In an interview with Graphic Online, the Northern
Regional Coordinator of Plan International, an
international NGO, Mr Stephen Konde, expressed
worry that despite the closeness of the sex
workers to the police barracks, the police were
yet to take action.

According to him, it was an indictment on the
police and prison officers around the area who
have allowed the business to thrive at their
backyard.

Mr Konde has, therefore, urged parents, religious
leaders and the police to act quickly to arrest
the situation in the Tamale metropolis.

He expressed concern that some elderly persons
also were in the habit of renting their rooms to
the young girls to be used as brothels.

Source - Graphic.com.gh

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