A Child Rights Organisation, Challenging Heights has commended the Senya Breku unit of the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service for complying\u00a0with the directives of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to screen vehicles for child trafficking.<\/p>\n
The IGP, Mohammed Ahmed Alhassan\u00a0at\u00a0the launch of the TURN BACK human trafficking campaign in Accra in June, issued a directive for vehicles to be screened in a bid to reduce the high incidences of child trafficking.<\/p>\n
As a result of this, the Organisation\u00a0in collaboration with the Awutu Senya\u00a0MTTD on 14th<\/sup> August 2015 , embarked on a process to screen vehicles for child trafficking.<\/p>\n They also \u00a0distributed hundreds of anti-child trafficking campaign stickers to drivers while sensitizing them on the dangers of child trafficking.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”fp3G8drtnkc7671d8ByeSY4n16F301ci”]Challenging Heights says it supports this compliance and joins the public to ask all other public officers especially at police checkpoint to check all vehicles and screen them for child trafficking.<\/p>\n A statement issued by the Challenging Heights indicated that screening vehicles for child trafficking is most urgent especially in this period of the year, where during schools vacation; hundreds of children are trafficked especially to Lake Volta for forced labour.<\/p>\n Currently, 49, 000 children are working on Lake Volta. Of this number, 21,000 are engaged in hazardous child labour \u2013 work that is dangerous to the lives of the children.<\/p>\n “This is the time no child should be allowed to add to the number of children working on Lake Volta at the cost of their lives and future.” the statement added.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Pius Amihere Eduku\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Child Rights Organisation, Challenging Heights has commended the Senya Breku unit of the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service for complying\u00a0with the directives of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to screen vehicles for child trafficking. The IGP, Mohammed Ahmed Alhassan\u00a0at\u00a0the launch of the TURN BACK human trafficking campaign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":23092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-146130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}