‘Medical doctor’, nursing mother and 20 others arrested for prostitution

The Cantonments Divisional Police Command has rounded up 22 suspected commercial sex workers operating within the Togo embassy roundabout enclave.

Some of the suspects including a medical doctor and a teenager nursing mother have been engaged in the commercial sex activity for years. The 22 suspects are made up of 12 Nigerians, four Ghanaian, two Togolese, two Liberian, one Beninese and one Cameroonian.

They are aged between 15 and 35 years and operate around the Togo Embassy, Cantonments Post Office, Italian Embassy, Akufo-Addo round about among other places within cantonment..

One of the Nigerians, who claimed to be a medical doctor, relocated to Accra 21 years ago and has been practising as a prostitute all these while. According to her, she has a child whom she sent back home to stay with her mother back in Nigeria after the police.

The suspect was arrested some four years ago for engaging prostitution. The youngest suspect, a Ghanaian, who is 15 years old is nursing a seven month old child. She said she always leave the baby in the care of a friend to seek for sex partners around the Togo embassy.

The suspect also included 24 year old twins from Nigeria. They relocated to Ghana this year to join others in the oldest profession and also pitched camp at Cantonments. The police said the suspects were swooped on following persistent public complaints over the commercial sex workers continuous nuisance in the area.

All 22 are to be put before court charged with illegally soliciting for sex.