Human trafficking is on the increase around the world due to its economic benefits to traffickers, Dr Freda Prempeh, the Member of Parliament for Tano North has warned.

She, therefore, cautioned youth desiring to travel abroad to be patient and obtain the relevant traveling documents, in order not to expose themselves to the traffickers who harvest and sell human organs.

Dr Prempeh, also the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources said unsuspecting victims also went through the worst forms of human rights abuses in the hands of traffickers.

She was speaking in an interview with Sompa FM on the side-lines of a community dialogue on social protection and social issues held at
Yamfo, a mining community in the Tano North Municipality of the Ahafo Region on Monday.

Dr Prempeh said traveling abroad was not a bad idea, it was imperative for those who intended to go abroad to check backgrounds and authenticate the genuineness of the “numerous” traveling agencies in the country.

The Tano North legislator expressed worry about reported cases of human trafficking involving unsuspecting Ghanaian victims, and young women in
particular, who had fell victims to traffickers, and were being exploited for commercial and domestic sex work in parts of the world.

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