The Member of Parliament (MP) for Effutu Constituency, Alex Afenyo-Markin wants the Police to apologize to the 31 women who were arrested for alleged prostitution on Monday.<\/p>\n
He is also calling on women’s groups in Ghana to rise up and take on the Police for the said act.<\/p>\n
31 commercial sex workers and two of their male patrons were on Monday arrested in a police swoop in Accra.<\/p>\n
The swoop was undertaken by the Cantonments Police.<\/p>\n
According to Mr. Afenyo<\/span>-Markin, there is no proof that the women were indeed soliciting for sex when they were arrested.<\/p>\n \u201cYou cannot see somebody on the streets of Accra at night and claim that he is a commercial sex worker, arrest the person, take her to the Police Station, take photographs of her and claim that she has admitted in a caution statement she is a commercial sex worker,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n He disclosed that even though the suspects may have made an incriminating statement against themselves, the Supreme Court has clearly made a stance on such a situation that such a statement \u201cdoes not make that person guilty.\u201d<\/p>\n The Effutu lawmaker condemned the actions of the Police saying, \u201cit was wrong in law and they must apologize to those women.\u201d<\/p>\n He was of the opinion that the Police could have charged the women for public nuisance rather that parading them \u201con front pages and saying that these are prostitutes.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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