The Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of the Ghana Police Service has rescued five children from the Eastern Regional Island called Biobio.

The children who are reported to be between the ages of nine and nineteen years have been on the journey for the past four years.

Speaking to Joynews, Director of Police Commercial and Crime Unit, Felix Mawusi, said the police acted on an intelligence report they gathered about the operation.

According to him, it took a careful and “diligent search” for the team leader of the operation to discover the hideout on the Island.

He said the children have been trafficked and re-trafficked by some persons who are in the business.

Mr Mawusi explained a child is said to have been trafficked when he is given to a master to serve for a given period. He added that when that child is released and given to another master, it means he has been re-trafficked.

What baffled the entire team, he said, was the nine-year-old victim who had been trafficked from the Central Region to a village called Fantekope which is near the Biobio Island.

He said per their investigation, the child is said to have been trafficked at the age of two years and has been serving one master after the other.