The Member of Parliament (MP) for Effutu Constituency, Alex Afenyo-Markin wants the Police to apologize to the 31 women who were arrested for alleged prostitution on Monday.
He is also calling on women�s groups in Ghana to rise up and take on the Police for the said act.
31 commercial sex workers and two of their male patrons were on Monday arrested in a police swoop in Accra.
The swoop was undertaken by the Cantonments Police.
According to Mr. Afenyo-Markin, there is no proof that the women were indeed soliciting for sex when they were arrested.
�You cannot see somebody on the streets of Accra at night and claim that he is a commercial sex worker, arrest the person, take her to the Police Station, take photographs of her and claim that she has admitted in a caution statement she is a commercial sex worker,� he remarked.
He disclosed that even though the suspects may have made an incriminating statement against themselves, the Supreme Court has clearly made a stance on such a situation that such a statement �does not make that person guilty.�
The Effutu lawmaker condemned the actions of the Police saying, �it was wrong in law and they must apologize to those women.�
He was of the opinion that the Police could have charged the women for public nuisance rather that parading them �on front pages and saying that these are prostitutes.�
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