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Police in Tamale have intercepted a busload of children being trafficked from the Upper East Region to Accra.It follows a Joy FM story that scores of school children in the Upper East are trooping to the South ahead of the vacation.Two passengers suspected of transporting the twenty nine children were yesterday arrested on board a bus at Tamale.The driver of the Metro Mass bus was also detained. Those arrested were taken back to Bolga with the children.Chief Inspector Ebenezer Tetteh, spokesperson of the Tamale Police Command who confirmed the news told Joy News the oldest of the children is 19 years and the youngest being 2 years old.“We have picked two persons; they are now assisting us with investigations. We are suspecting them to be the agents who are transporting the children to the south,” he said.He added that the suspects may be arraigned before court next week.Source: Joy News/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana
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