Male prostitute, dressed as female,arrested by police in Accra

The suspect, Ugona Agu, a Nigerian,who works as an attendant at a

localeatery (chop bar) was arrested by the Sowutuom District Police

Command.

Briefing Graphic Online’s Crime reporter,Emelia Ennin Abbey, the

Sowutuom District Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police

(DSP) Mrs Susan Mensah Adjei, said two men who were suspicious of Agu,

spotted him last Tuesday at about 3am and monitored him until he tried

to change his clothes behind a’container’ shop after his illegal

business.

Hot chase

According to the police when Agu saw the two men were watching him, he

took to his heels but was given a hot chase and apprehended.

The two men took him to the Sowutoum Police Station where thesuspect

was said to have confessed that he was a male prostitute who solicited

for other men.

Mrs Mensah Adjei said the suspect told the police that he arrived in

Ghana in January this year and had since been working as a chop bar

attendant during the day and a male prostitute at night.

“He said he dresses as a woman forhis customers who pay from Gh¢300 to

Gh¢500 for his services for a whole night.”

The police said the suspect, who claimed he was married with children

in Nigeria, had Gh¢200 and 5,510 Naira at the time of his arrest.

However, Mrs Mensah Adjei said the suspect accused the two men who

arrested him of demanding and taking GH¢ 2,000 from him.

She said the police have since launched an investigation into the matter.

Source: Graphic Online