Men Are Responsible For Prostitution In Society- Paramount Queenmother, Bongo
The Paramount Queenmother of the Bongo Traditional Area, Pognaba Christiana Ngee, is appealing to men in society to desist from propelling prostitution by not patronizing them in an effort to minimize the menace.
It is often claimed that prostitution is the oldest profession in the world aside midwifery but according to the Paramount Queenmother, men are the main force behind prostitution.
She is of a firm conviction that prostitution will end if men, who form the central of the clientage base, decide not go in for prostitutes.
According to Pognaba Christiana Ngee, if a trader takes her goods to the market but constantly fails to get the needed customers on a couple of occasions after displaying such goods, will cease to send them to the market again since there is no patronage.
It is estimated that nearly 60,049 of females engage in prostitution. This represents 0.76% of females aged 15-49 years.
Apart from people raising moral issues for which they think that efforts must be made to ban the practice, there are also concerns about the spread of diseases including HIV which has a prevalence of 4.67% amongst female sex workers in Ghana.
Prostitution is also a main pivot of the trafficking of many young girls especially from Nigeria to Ghana under the pretext of securing them well paying jobs.
It is on this score that the Paramount Queen Mother of Bongo is urging men to desist from patronizing them in a bid to end the practice.
Pognaba Christiana Ngee was speaking to the media on the sidelines of a stakeholder engagement on maintaining peace before, during and after Election 2024, organized by the Navrongo -Bolgatanga Diocesan Development Office “NABOCADO”.
“Prostitution, it’s men who are promoting and championing its relevance. If men stop following the prostitutes, they will change their minds and get settled, become responsible ladies in society. Men influence it by following them, giving them money and sending them to their havens for self satisfaction”, she said.
She continued, “they are going from one man to another, collecting money and sleeping with them so if they come to you and you don’t give them, how will they come to you again? And others also stay away from them, won’t they stop? They will be forced to stop whether they like it or not”.
They are going from one man to another, collecting money and sleeping with them so if they come to you and you don’t give them, how will they come to you again?
