By Murtala Issah
A forty-one-year-old Nigerian national, Blessing Favour pleaded guilty to two charges of human trafficking and forced prostitution when she appeared before a Tamale Circuit Court on Monday, December 5, 2022.
The accused allegedly brought girls from Nigeria on the pretext of giving them jobs in Ghana but forced them into commercial sex on arrival. The accused allegedly manages brothels at “Dollar Power”, a mining community in the Bole district of the Savannah region as well as Tamale in the Northern region.
On Sunday, December 4th, luck eluded Blessing, when one of her victims escaped and run to the police for cover. Madam Blessing was arrested on the same day and brought before court the following day.
The victim told GBC News that she is not alone, but many have been sworn into secrecy. “She cut our nails, shaved our “toto” hair, and put it on white egg. She said if we tell anybody we will die,” the victim explained.
The victim also revealed that an accomplice of madam Blessing, known as Ebuka, forcibly had several rounds of sex with the girls when they arrived. “He had sex with me on the first day, and the night before they took us to Dollar Power, he slept with me,” she disclosed. Ebuka is on the run with police sources suspecting that he is hiding somewhere in Tamale.
When she appeared before a Tamale Circuit court presided over by his Lordship, Alexander Omare, madam Blessing, pleaded guilty and was remanded into prison custody awaiting sentencing on Monday, December 12th, 2022.
