General News of Saturday, 14 July 2007
Source: THE SUN
Indeed a joint at the Circle just beneath the Overhead where an ex-soldier pretends to be running a drinking spot (just adjacent a smell gutter) looks to be the headquarters for cheap prostitutes. They charge as low as ¢50,000 which is Gh¢5 per session of just about 30 strokes of waist wriggling, during which the loaded come ought to spray by ejecting from the male's system otherwise macho-men body guards could have the right to remove the pimp off the prostitute's womanhood. Undercover work conducted by THE SUN revealed that gradually, the element of unprotected sex is fading off but it still prevails among those of the vice girls who smoke cigarettes and ganja openly at the joint. That goes with the increased price of ¢30,000 more cedis for all the dangers.
The Odawna Park, new market and the Circle Lorry Park are also fertile areas for low class prostitutes to hang on about. There is also the interesting issue of the prostitute and the pimp banging themselves away atop the new overhead late at midnight, while Churches nearby congregate in praise of the Lord-God. All this while, middle-class prostitutes would have been engaged in hotels and other social joints nearby with patronisers of their 'wares', in sordid battles of sex for cash. Sophisticated prostitutes rather dress well except that they leave room for pimps to get a hint of their availability, if indeed they are game and ready.
They spot the big ear rings and wafting aromatic perfume which can be scented half a mile away. Quite a few do the rounds with taxi cab drivers who pick them and the clients at an appointed time. The high societal prostitutes operate outside of the noisy Kwame Nkrumah Circle area around Labone, The Togo Embassy, East and West Legon, Adabraka, Dansoman, Airport Residential and Roman Ridge areas. The more sophisticated strike appointments with clients and use either their premises or that of the clients who either pay after full sessions, or pay upfront by cash on the basis of the trust between them. THE SUN's worry has to do with two areas of concern.
First remains the calibre of humans parading as prostitutes who are evidently in their youthful ages at a time the nation ought to gain economically from their sweat and good toil. The grounds are shifting from hairdressers, seamstresses, secretaries to CEOs to students in all the different segments of the second cycle and tertiary institutions, expected to be the intelligentsia to shoulder Ghana's burden. Last March when Ghana grew more gray hairs at 50, the President John Agyekum Kufuor announced that the Golden Jubilee celebration was going to be all-year round. That made the prostitutes believe that it was going to be Christmas all-year round. The just-ended AU Summit too came as a wonderful opportunity for them to latch on to new and foreign clients.
But the calendar looks hardly exhausted. With the approaching Non-aligned Conference, several other holidays dotted on the nation's calendar and worst of all, next January's CAN 2008 Championship it appears Satan has issued a blank cheque to agents of this thriving business. Will the state continue to turn a blind eye while the youth waste away their youthfulness desired elsewhere to help propel the national economy to the heights of heaven? Will the state stand aloof as sex tourism gains a foothold where exactly God has just blessed us with oil?
Will the state stand idly by while all these immorality dovetails into several facets of the nation's life in an era of HIV/AIDS?
Now THE SUN knows that where God cooks his AMPESI (Oil) is exactly where Satan roasts his Koobi (prostitution).