Princess Asie Ocansey, the Chief Executive Officer of the Channel of Blessing Ministry, has been arrested for allegedly recruiting young Ghanaian women and men to work in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia as domestic servants and butchers.
Princess Ocansey hosts a radio programme on Sunny FM every Saturday afternoon and uses that platform to recruit her victims.
She has apparently also visited churches where she lured youngsters into believing that their lives would change for the better if they travelled outside the country.
The Director of the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent Patience Quaye, said the complainants in Ocansey's case were the American Embassy in Accra and a young woman.
The identity of the woman, aged 27, has been withheld.
According to the police, the suspect allegedly lured the young woman, a devout Christian, to Kuwait under the pretense that she would live a better life there, when in fact she was sending her off to a trying ordeal.
The police said the young woman was made to believe that she was going to work in a supermarket but she was rather pushed into prostitution.
After that, the young woman was brought back from Kuwait about two months ago, suffering from serious mental health problems that resulted from her mistreatment.
Supt Quaye said the victim had told the police about her horrifying experience after she was brought to the unit by her uncle and brothers.
At the time, she was screaming and running around the car park of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service. When her relatives finally managed to calm her down, she started screaming, “I will not die, I will not die."
Supt Quaye said the victim looked pale, dehydrated and drowsy, so after taking her statement and that of her uncle, they sent her to the 37 Military Hospital for treatment, where she remained on admission for some weeks.
She added that the doctors at the hospital could not immediately administer any drugs to the victim because she had been heavily sedated and kept passing out.
After the young woman’s discharge from the hospital, Supt. Quaye reported that she narrated her ordeal to the police, claiming that many other young Ghanaian girls were suffering the same fate that she had.
Some of the victims are even said to have even lost their lives through the ordeal.
Following her arrest, Ocansey told the police that she is not the only person in Ghana who, under the protection of labour laws, recruits girls to work in Gulf states.
She said that several girls had been sent there to work and that the victim was not the only woman she had sent.
Ocansey is currently on police enquiry bail assisting in their investigations.
Source: Myjoyonline
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