If not for the intervention of the assembly member for the area,
Albert Osei-Banahene, the enraged sex workers would have hit the streets
in their nakedness and marched from one office building to another,
just to get the authorities to come to their aide.
“It is not that they are better than us in bed but as you know,
most men prefer younger girls and these Nigerian girls are younger. Some
are still in their teens and their agents protect them but we do not
have agents who make things easier for us so the conditions of work are
not fair.
“We would start attacking any underage ashawo from Nigeria because
they are spoiling the market,” one of them noted. Interestingly, though
both groups are prostituting, the Ghanaian girls say they are commercial
sex workers while the Nigerians are ‘ashawos.’
According to the Ghanaian sex workers, the arrival of sexier girls
from Nigeria is making business very competitive and compelling them to
lower their rates or lose customers. Not pleased about the development,
the disillusioned sex workers have declared their preparedness to hit
the streets, should authorities fail to respond to their call and put in
place appropriate measures to arrest the worrying situation.
In an interview,the stationed sex workers revealed that some
Nigerians living in Kumasi have made it their business of bringing in
very pretty sex workers from the oil-rich country to practice their
trade in the Ghana.
The assembly member for the area, Hon Albert Osei-Banahene, who has
being appealing to the sex workers to remain calm, appealed to the
government to take up the matter and ensure that it is resolved
amicably. He noted that it was important for the government to come in
strongly because of the ages of the girls who are purported to have been
sent into the city for sex trade.
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