24 commercial sex workers from Nigeria were fined by the La District Court for soliciting sex in Osu, Accra.

They are Ibeh Mary, 20, Favour David, 20, Nancy Victor, 23, Angel Isaiah, 23, Gloria Uyi, 27, Jennifer James, 27, Matilda Samuel, 28, and Chukwuma Olivia Chinyere, 22.

Others include Joy Bolle, 22, Berry Michael, 23, Angel Mbah, 23, Eze Jane, 23, Jenny Daniel, 23, Comfort James, 23, and Eze Kelly. Lilian Ikpomwosa is 26.

To the charge of soliciting or importuning by a prostitute, all of the defendants entered pleas of guilty.

Upon entering their own plea, the court found them guilty.

The court also ordered the convicts to be deported back to their home nation.

The Court also gave the Police the responsibility of working with the Ghana Immigration Service to deport each and every convict.

The defendants were all Nigerians, according to information provided by Police Chief Inspector Doris Darko.

According to the prosecution, the convicts have been harassing neighbours in the Accra suburb of Osu for some time now by soliciting and impersonating them as prostitutes.

It was stated that on July 23, 2023, at around 2200 hours, the Police conducted an exercise to crack down on the activities of the commercial sex workers who were arrested from various locations throughout Osu in the act of soliciting and importuning as prostitutes.

They admitted the offence in their caution statements, according to the prosecution, during the course of the investigation.