Ghana civil society coalition to tackle transnational crime as trafficking forum warns of rising cyber scam exploitation

A coalition of civil society organisations is set to be launched in Ghana to strengthen the fight against transnational organised crime and the growing trafficking of young people into cyber-enabled scam operations across West Africa."For fifteen years, since young Ghanaians first began to be drawn into online fraud, GYAN Ghana has warned that this was never simply a story of criminal young people—it was a story of young people preyed upon," she said.

GYAN Ghana urges stronger action Lamberta Bina Abusah, co-convener of the forum for GYAN Ghana, said the organisation had spent years warning that many young people involved in internet fraud were themselves victims of exploitation.