46 Ghanaian UN peacekeepers who were accused of paying for sex while serving in South Sudan have returned to their home country after they were recalled.
The Police officers were said to have breached the code of conduct for UN peacekeepers which prohibits sexual relationships with vulnerable people.
The police service command in Ghana said in a statement on Thursday that the officers who were serving on Peacekeeping operation in Remit, arrived in Ghana on Wednesday in the capital Accra.
The statement said the 46 Officers “will resume full normal police operations,” despite the allegations against them and adds that the Ghanaian police service will wait for “the full investigative report from the United Nations for further action.”
The UN had said in a statement in February this year that the police officers from Ghana “allegedly engaged in transactional sex” but added that “the matter was being investigated by the United Nations. There is no indication that this behavior is more widespread within the Mission.”
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Starr FM had reported that many Ghanaians had wished the police officers in question if found guilty be sacked from the service.
The United Nations has 17, 000 peacekeepers serving in civil war-torn South Sudan but the global body has in recent years struggled to deal with numerous cases of sexual abuse and exploitation by its peacekeepers.
Source: Africafeeds.com
