The Yeji District Police Command has rescued 19 girls who
were being trafficked from the Northern Region to Kumasi.
Bono Ahafo Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Chief Inspector Augustine
Kingsley Oppong, in a briefing said the Yeji District Police Commander, DSP
Owoahene Acheampong, had information that some girls were being secretly
transported to Kumasi.
He said a team of Police Officers were deployed to the bank of the Volta Lake
at Yeji and found the 19 girls aged between nine and 16 with one Jato Jonas
about to board a vehicle to Kumasi.
Chief Inspector Oppong said Police arrested Jonas, a 29 year old unemployed and
escorted him and the girls to the Yeji Police Station, adding that when
interrogated the suspect stated that he was taking the girls to the Amantin
Agro-Processing Company in the Atebubu-Amantin Municipality to harvest beans.
He said the Police had since referred the case to the Bimbila Police in the
Northern Region to trace the parents of the girls and continue with the
investigation and to charge and prosecute the suspect to serve as a deterrent
to others.
Police at Yeji rescue 19 trafficking girls from the Northern Region
