NET Extra: Commercial sex workers in Ghana say lack of power is affecting business

By Chrysanthus Ikeh

With the lack of electricity supply in parts of Ghana, commercial sex workers under the banner of Ghanaian Prostitutes in Accra have protested having to attend to customers in the dark and the impact on their business.

A current report by OMG Ghana, extracting the opinions of commercial sex workers at different cities over the lack of constant electricity in the country saw the ladies of the night bearing their mind.

Some of them who ply their trade at Toppers, a popular brothel at St. John’s near Dome in Accra said they are gradually losing customers.

‘Since most of the guys simply don’t wanna ‘tonga’ in a dark room, and I do understand them, because nobody will feel comfortable to have vigorous sex in the heat that invades the rooms when there’s dum-sor,’ they are not coming,’ one of them said.

Another among ladies based at Saint John district in Accra also narrated their disappointment at the lack of power supply saying:

‘From where we stand; the customers cannot see what we look like. Why would they bother to come? Who says she entered the sex trade recently. And even if we manage with some efforts to get one, he is unwilling to accompany you to a dark room somewhere for short-time, let alone a full night of ‘tonga.’