Deception, major trick of child traffickers- NGO (Engage Now Africa)
Assistant Director of Engage Now Africa, David Kofi Awusi
says deception is the major technique employed by child traffickers to trap
victims. He made this known at a forum in the Mankessim Township located in the
Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region on Tuesday, May 31, 2016.
The sensitization and educative forum which comes under the theme: “Children
must be in School, not working” was an initiative of his outfit which is an
international NGO committed to ending modern slavery and poverty in Ghana and
Africa as a whole.
The purpose of the forum was to educate Ghanaians on the tricks and strategies that traffickers use in trafficking children in Ghana and elsewhere in the world. It also seeks to launch the presence of Engage Now Africa within the district with tools like education, prevention and advocacy as its three main pillars to empower people against child trafficking and its menace.
Modern slavery also known as child trafficking, refers to the recruitment, transportation, harbouring or transfer of a person from one place or the other against the will of the victim for the purpose of forced labour, sexual exploitation or organ trade.
Addressing a forum which took place at the main Mankessim- Accra lorry station, David cautioned the general public to be vigilant and resist every trick of child traffickers to lure unsuspecting people who ends up as victims to the barbaric act.
“They will tell you that there is a job, there’s an opportunity, I want you to get your child to come and stay with me in the city only to take them there to go and use for different purposes.
“Some of them are also through false promises…we hear that some people will come and say that there’s a job opportunity in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar in the Gulf countries and they will recruit people under the pretext of giving them job and quality education only for their traveling documents to be confiscated and then made to work in hotels, restaurants, call centers and different forms of work that is exploitative,” he indicated.
Mr. Awusi then charged the public to quickly lodge a complaint with either the Domestic Violence or Support Unit (DOVSU) of the Ghana Police Service, Social Welfare Department or contact other law enforcement agencies for assistance whenever they encounter such cases.
In adding her voice to the education, the Director of Mankessim Social Welfare Department, Mrs. Felicia Ankrah Halm appealed to government to help enforce the laws guiding child trafficking and any form of exploitation in the country to punish offenders.
The purpose of the forum was to educate Ghanaians on the tricks and strategies that traffickers use in trafficking children in Ghana and elsewhere in the world. It also seeks to launch the presence of Engage Now Africa within the district with tools like education, prevention and advocacy as its three main pillars to empower people against child trafficking and its menace.
Modern slavery also known as child trafficking, refers to the recruitment, transportation, harbouring or transfer of a person from one place or the other against the will of the victim for the purpose of forced labour, sexual exploitation or organ trade.
Addressing a forum which took place at the main Mankessim- Accra lorry station, David cautioned the general public to be vigilant and resist every trick of child traffickers to lure unsuspecting people who ends up as victims to the barbaric act.
“They will tell you that there is a job, there’s an opportunity, I want you to get your child to come and stay with me in the city only to take them there to go and use for different purposes.
“Some of them are also through false promises…we hear that some people will come and say that there’s a job opportunity in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar in the Gulf countries and they will recruit people under the pretext of giving them job and quality education only for their traveling documents to be confiscated and then made to work in hotels, restaurants, call centers and different forms of work that is exploitative,” he indicated.
Mr. Awusi then charged the public to quickly lodge a complaint with either the Domestic Violence or Support Unit (DOVSU) of the Ghana Police Service, Social Welfare Department or contact other law enforcement agencies for assistance whenever they encounter such cases.
In adding her voice to the education, the Director of Mankessim Social Welfare Department, Mrs. Felicia Ankrah Halm appealed to government to help enforce the laws guiding child trafficking and any form of exploitation in the country to punish offenders.
She equally called on government to financially assist poor parents who cannot
afford to cater for their wards in school in order to put a stop to modern
slavery in the area.
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