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Thirty-six Nigerian
prostitutes arrested in the exercise have already been repatriated.
The Council says prostitution has become a bad influence on
minors resulting in increasing child prostitution in the region.
Regional Minister and Chairman of
the REGSEC, Simon Osei Mensah, says the Council is supporting the police and
the Immigration Service to flush out foreign prostitutes.
“When you go to Danyame area in
the night, you find them scattered all over the place and I don’t think it’s
healthy for us and we have to eradicate that one,” he said.
The Police and Immigration Service personnel have since the
beginning of this year picked up and prosecuted dozens of commercial
sex workers in Kumasi and other towns.
Thirty-six of them, all Nigerians,
arrested in Kumasi and Konongo between January and April have been sent back to
their country.
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“Sixteen Nigerian prostitutes were also repatriated after they
were arrested in Konongo by Immigration officers and policemen on the 29th of
January 2019. We’ve also repatriated 20 Nigerian prostitutes in collaboration
with the police this year,” Regional Director of the Immigration, Michael
Kwadede, said.
Mr Osei Mensah who chairs
REGSEC said growing prostitution involving minors cannot be allowed to go
on.
He made the comment at
the first-ever meet the press series organised by REGSEC to address
security concerns in the region.
“Those who are arrested, you do
find minors. Some [of them] are below 16-years; some around 14, 15 years
all indulging in such illegal activity,” he said.
Mr. Osei Mensah first wants the
public to desist from patronising the services of the prostitutes.
“The whole thing is demand and
supply. If the demand is not there, the supply won’t be there. Because we are
patronising, that is why they always go there; they find it to be lucrative,”
he noted.
He announced that patrons of
services of prostitutes will also be arrested and prosecuted.
“It is time we have to do some of
the arrest involving those who are also patronising because if you don’t visit
them, they would go and stand there the whole night, nobody calls them the whole
night, I don’t think the following day they will be available,” he said.
Meanwhile, police say it is
awaiting DNA test results on some women who were murdered and bodies dumped in
some parts of Kumasi.
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