Radio Gold Used For Trafficking Young Girls To Italy?

The New Free Press is calling on the National Security and the BNI to investigate the CEO of Radio Gold, Mr Kwesi Sainti Baffoe Bonnie for using Radio Gold to smuggle young women abroad to Italy for prostitution. The New Free Press has evidence that Mr Baffoe Bonnie, working with one Chief Emenike Nwakpa, a Nigerian businessman has since September 2010 been given references at the cost of 12,000 dollars each to young Ghanaian and Nigerian women who pose as journalists of Radio Gold to attend media courses at a school for journalism in Italy. These young women are given visas and end up in cities like Milan and Rome doing prostitution to pay back the monies used in assisting them to travel.

Our evidence shows that 27 girls have been trafficked since 2010 and currently the Italian police have detained 4 of these girls at Rome’s Identification and Expulsion centre Ponte Galeria, Italy’s largest detention and Migration centre due for deportation after they were picked up in a red light district .

We call on the security services to investigate the activities and goings on at Radio Gold, a station noted for its objective and high journalistic standards which now has become a transit point for trafficking young girls to Europe .

The New Free Press is also calling on the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs investigate the circumstances in which Mr Baffoe Bonnie was able to present Radio Gold as a media training institution when it has no licence to do so and how it was able with this chief Emineke Nkwapa to procure visas for these women to go to Italy.

Suraju Musah Mohammed

Managing Editor

The New Free Press

Kotobabi Abavana Down

Accra