By Ademola Adekusibe
October 31, 2025.
A Ghanaian court has sentenced Chukwudi Nwachukwu, an Ibo man, to 10 years in prison for trafficking his younger sister and nine other girls into prostitution.
The Achimota Circuit Court in Accra, presided over by Judge Akosua Anokyewaa Adjepong, found Nwachukwu guilty on two counts of human trafficking and ordered him to pay GH₵15,000 to each victim as compensation.
The victims, aged between 15 and 18 years, were deceived with promises of restaurant jobs in Ghana but were instead forced into sex work upon arrival. Shockingly, one of them was his own sister.
Prosecutor ASP Isaac Babayi told the court that Chief Calistus Eloziepuwa of the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation (NIDO) reported the matter and rescued the victims.
Investigations revealed that Nwachukwu funded their transport from Nigeria, lodged them at his house near Kasoa, and forced them to swear oaths before a shrine after cutting their pubic hair, threatening them with incurable diseases if they ever tried to escape.
He later moved them to Odorkor, Accra, where they were made to pay him GH₵300 daily from their prostitution earnings. Police found a ledger where he kept record of their proceeds.
The judge, in sentencing him, said the rising menace of human trafficking required a firm hand and that his own sister’s inclusion in the crime showed a depth of greed and moral decay deserving of no sympathy.
