News:
August 27, 2018
Director of the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Police Service, Superintendent Mike Baah, has underscored the need for Ghana to improve its status on human trafficking.
According to Superintendent Mike Baah, Ghana has moved one step on the United States watch list on anti-human trafficking, from “tire two watch list to tire two”.
He disclosed this in an interview at Afram Plains North when Ghana observed anti-human trafficking.
Superintendent Mike Baah noted that child labour and trafficking is mainly prevalent in mining and fishing communities, despite the fact that Ghana has passed law against human trafficking in 2000 Act 694.
“We have done something but we need to do more to help protect our children, it is good to organise a sensitization programme to educate people in communities that engage in child labour and trafficking”.
He added that if Ghana did not improve its ranking on human trafficking and dropped to tire three(3), that would have affected Ghana’s relations with the United States of America, “that would have been a doom for us all the support we receive from the US government would have been affected”, he lamented.
Again being on the tire two watch list we need not to be complacent, we need to do more to consolidate the gains we have made, he said.
“We are moving at a slow pace as a nation, it is good that the awareness is being created, those who exploit our children should be brought to book to serve as a deterrent and again we need to build the capacity of stakeholders and the media should help us in the awareness creation” he lamented.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com