Thirty-one commercial sex workers and two of their male patrons were arrested in a police swoop in Accra on Monday.<\/p>\n
One of the commercial sex workers is said to be five-months pregnant.<\/p>\n
The operation, which started at 11 p.m, was part of efforts by the Cantonments Police to rid the streets of Accra of prostitutes.<\/p>\n
Those arrested were aged 18 to 40.<\/p>\n
A number of them fled when they saw the police approaching, while others rained insults on the police for attempting to arrest them.<\/p>\n
Areas<\/strong><\/p>\n The commercial sex workers were arrested while they were busily soliciting patronage near the Danquah Circle, the Togolese Embassy, the Italian Embassy and their environs.<\/p>\n Briefing journalists on Monday, the Cantonments Police Commander, Chief Superintendent of Police, Mr Iddi Seidu, said the exercise was executed as a result of the numerous complaints received from diplomats and other residents of the area.<\/p>\n \u201cThe complaints received about the activities of these prostitutes indicate that the commercial sex workers make a lot of noise at midnight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The Cantonments Police Commander said some of the residents also claimed that they were usually harassed by the prostitutes in the evenings when they were returning home from work.<\/p>\n In all, 30 policemen, including three senior officers, were involved in the operation.<\/p>\n He said the police had interrogated the suspects and taken their statements.<\/p>\n \u201cThey have all been charged with soliciting for immoral purpose and will be put before court,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source: Daily Graphic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thirty-one commercial sex workers and two of their male patrons were arrested in a police swoop in Accra on Monday. One of the commercial sex workers is said to be five-months pregnant. The operation, which started at 11 p.m, was part of efforts by the Cantonments Police to rid the streets of Accra of prostitutes. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":23760,"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":[273,1327,1326,38,17],"class_list":["post-23758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-education","tag-mali","tag-namoale","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23758","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}