A 53-year-old farmer, Bashiru Gambo, who attempted to offer his son for sale, has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in hard labour by the Tarkwa Circuit Court.
He was charged with trading a person contrary to section 2 (1) of the Human Trafficking Act 694 of 2005. He pleaded guilty to the offence and asked the court to forgive him.
Before the presiding judge, Mrs Hathia Ama Manu, read the judgement, the prosecutor, Superintendent of Police Juliana Essel-Dadzie, said the rate at which people were missing had increased and appealed to the court to give a stiffer punishment to the convict to serve as a deterrent to others.
She said the victim, Alexander Kyeremeh, is a small-scale miner and resided at Manu-krom near Obuasi, while Gambo, the biological father of the victim lived at Wassa-Abreshia near Wassa Akropong.
On Thursday, June 27, 2024, Police officers stationed at Wassa-Nkonya picked intelligence that Gambo had planned to offer the victim for sale.