If not for the vigilance of the Ghana Police Service, over 600 children would have been successfully trafficked from parts of the country to unknown destinations in less than a week. These children, whose ages range between 2 and 15 years, were allegedly trafficked from parts of the country, especially, from the rural areas to the urban centers. The activity started from the Northern Regional capital of Tamale, where the Regional Police in Tamale intercepted a busload of 29 children being trafficked from the Upper East Region to Accra. It trickled down to the south hitting the Central Region. The Police at Nakwa and Ekumpoani in the Mfantseman Municipal Assembly saved 120 children who were allegedly being trafficked to the Western region. Then to the Greater Accra Region, which recorded the highest of children being allegedly trafficked to Yeji in the Bono Ahafo region. In Sege Constituency, three bus loads of children, numbering 338, and suspected to have been trafficked from mainly the Ningo catchment area, were intercepted by the Ghana Police Service. The children are currently being housed at the Police Training School at Tesano, Accra, where investigations are ongoing, before they are re-united with their families. The children, ranging between the ages of 3 and 18 years, were sourced and bused from different villages, en route to Yeji, when they were intercepted. Then from Greater Accra, it moved upwards again to the Northern parts of the country. The Upper East Regional police command on Friday, 30th of July 2010 intercepted about 60 children suspected to have been trafficked. They are currently at the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of the Bolgatanga Regional Police headquarters. This rescue comes after 6 children (5 boys and a girl) were earlier intercepted by the police the same day. Still in the North, another bus was intercepted at Tumu in the Sisala East district of the Upper West Region carrying 92 children. Police say the children were being transported to southern Ghana. On Friday August 06, 2010, the Techiman Police intercepted a Mercedes Benz bus with registration number GT 4275 H, loaded with 23 children suspected to be child slaves bound for Kumasi. So the question is. Why do parents indulge in such acts at this time of the month when school children are on vacations? The Chairman for the Parliamentary Select Committee on Gender and Children in an interview with Asempa News called on government, human rights institutions and the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs to, as a matter of urgency, put up pragmatic measures to curb the insurgence of child trafficking in the country. Mr. Sampson Ahi who is also the Member of Parliament for Juaboso Constituency in the Western Region condemned circumstance where people take undue advantage of children and abused them. He said the basic tool to tackle child trafficking is mainly education which the Select Committee has taken upon itself to put up certain programs to help eliminate child trafficking. Mr. Ahi further described the statement made by his colleague MP for Sege Constituency, Alfred Abayateye, who said that ‘the problem of child trafficking, especially, in the Sege Constituency, has been in existence since time immemorial’ as very unfortunate. Story: Kwaku Antwi-Otoo/Asempa FM/Ghana