The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection says it has begun investigations into BBC’s Reportage on Ghanaian children wrongly taken in anti-human trafficking raids backed by US Charity International Justice Mission (IJM).
The Deputy Minister, Francisca Oteng Mensah, told the GNA in an interview that a Committee has been set up to investigate the claims by the British media.
She said that upon the completion of the investigations, the findings would be communicated to stakeholders.
On Monday, the BBC published a report on an anti-human trafficking raid carried out at midnight in Mogyigna, a remote hamlet in the Northern Region.
The raid involved four children, including an 11-year-old girl, who the report stated, was yanked with the others as she slept with her grandparents in one of the huts in the hamlet.
The IJM in a three-page press statement, however, said the BBC’s report on the raid contained “material inaccuracies” insisting they were fully transparent with the Police and provided it with the facts on the case. It insisted that the police and the authorities concerned would have to make their own determination if the law had been violated.
