Gender Ministry to wage war on individuals  and  institutions luring head porters into prostitution in Arabian countries

The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection  Nana Oye Lithur has warned that institutions and individuals responsible for trafficking young head potters popularly known as ‘Kayayei’ to  Arabian countries to engage in prostitution and other indecent acts will be prosecuted and jailed if they do not stop the illegal act.   

She said the young ladies who are promised better lives in the Arabian countries are later pushed into prostitution which violates their rights.  

Nana Oye Lithur made the call at a forum  for head potters to register onto the National Health Insurance Scheme in Accra.  

She said  her Ministry would collaborate with the President of the head potters association to find solutions to the practice.  

Nana Oye emphasised that the law would be made to bring all the people who are practicing the illegal act to book. 

The Minster`s call is in response to the increasing number of young ladies being trafficked to  Arabian countries to practice prostitution and are also made to face all manner of inhumane abuse by their so-called masters. 

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