Tamale Metropolitan Assembly Mayor, Sule Salifu is concerned about the rising number of prostitutes in the city and has urged all landlords to know the background of the people they are taking into their homes.
According to the mayor, sex workers crowd main streets all night long, from the Bank of Ghana to the Tamale Post Office Road, to Jubilee Park, and he has enlisted some youth to watch over them and report to them when anything they see to be a risk to their business.
speaking at the 2022 International Youth Week event at Tamasco, he said;
Without fear, sex workers crowd main streets all night long, from the Bank of Ghana to the Tamale Post Office Road, to Jubilee Park (which is located right next to the regional police headquarters), to Nagasaki, and finally to Triumph Cinema.
You are just in your house when someone comes to tell you he or she is looking for a room. You are not interested in finding out the background of that person. What is the person coming to do?
“The person stays in the room whilst everybody is at work. She is inside the room then, men or women go in and come out.” You are seeing and you are not talking. What will the chief in that area do? Because he is not aware, “