11 young women and girls ranging between the ages of 14 and 23 who had been either kidnaped or recruited from Kumasi, Togo and the Volta Region were rescued from traffickers attempting to smuggle them to the Middle East. The whereabouts of a 12th girl who is suspected to have been move to a location in Kumasi in not known.
The suspects were arrested following the tipoff of immigration personnel at Agona West Municipal office at Agona Swedru in the Central Region of Ghana. They are 60-year-old Alhaji Ibrahim Imoro and his two wives Hajia Zakari and Hajia Zaratu.
24 enslaved boys forced to work in the fishing industry on Volta Lake in Ghana rescued
According to authorities Ibrahim has indicated that his sons who is alleged to have been in the business of trafficking girls to the Arab world for years has brought the girls to his house for safe keep while he traveled to Accra to secure Ghanaian passports for them.
Nine of the eleven girls are said to be of Togolese nationality but are not able to identify their villages or hometown. Though of girls believed they were being sent abroad to work none of them seem to have made their parent aware of this endeavor.
The suspect and the girls have been transported to the Ghana Immigration Service headquarters in Accra for further further investigations.
