General News of Monday, 29 April 2019Source: classfmonline.comAfram Plains: Army, police rescue 16 of 24 trafficked childrenSome military and police personnel stormed Edrakpota to rescue 16 trafficked childrenThe Eastern regional police command has said it has arrested nine suspected human traffickers in the Afram Plains North Constituency and did not kidnap them as being alleged by the MP for the area, Betty Krosbi Nana Afua Mensah. The PRO of the regional command, DSP Ebenezer Tetteh, told Class News: “What we did in the area was a legitimate police operation to rescue 24 children who have been trafficked from all over the country. “So, based on intelligence, the police went to the area to rescue those children and it was an operation carried out by the anti-human trafficking unit. We carried out the operation to rescue them and to arrest the perpetrators and deal with them. We’ve rescued 16 out of the 24 and the eight, we’re still pursuing to rescue them.

Source: GhanaWeb April 29, 2019 13:30 UTC