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The suspect in a pose with the victims

POLICE in Atebubu in Bono East Region have arrested a 29 year old man, Jonah Jato who was allegedly trafficking 19 girls between the ages of nine and 16 to an unknown destination.

The Atebubu Municipal
Police Command acting upon a tip-off rescued the girls at the bank of the Volta
River on 17th June, 2019 at about 4pm after they received
information that some girls were being trafficked by a man who claimed he was
sending them to Kumasi to work in a factory.

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Jato was arrested and
detained and the girls were provided with food and accommodation till the next
day.

The girls told police
that they were brought from Bimbila in the Northern Region and were told they
were going to work at Amantin Agro processing Factory in the Bono East Region.

According to
Atebubu Municipal Police Commander, DSP Thomas Owoahene when Jato was
interrogated, he could not provide tangible reasons for being with the girls.

After grilling
him, Jato was said to have been granted police enquiry bail pending further
action.

Meanwhile, the
girls were later escorted by the police to Bimbila to be handed over to their
counterparts there to help look for their parents.

Regional Police spokesman, Chief Inspector Augustine Kingsley Oppong said Jato would be processed for court after investigations.   

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FROM Daniel Y Dayee, Sunyani

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