A court in Accra, Ghana, has sentenced a 43-year-old Nigerian woman, Eugenia Ifeoma, to five years in prison for human trafficking and ordered her deportation after serving her sentence.
According to prosecutors, Ifeoma pleaded guilty to two counts of human trafficking and admitted entering Ghana through an unauthorized route. Investigations revealed that she recruited and transported two Nigerian girls, aged 19 and 17, into Ghana for prostitution.
The court heard that she housed the victims, supplied them with condoms, demanded a daily payment from their earnings, and allegedly threatened them with spiritual consequences if they attempted to escape.
Following intelligence gathered by the Ghana Immigration Service, Ifeoma was arrested, prosecuted, and convicted. The court subsequently sentenced her to five years’ imprisonment and ruled that she be deported upon completing her jail term.
