The founder of Challenging Height, James Kofi Annan, has urged Nigerian authorities to address the trafficking of its citizens to Ghana.

This follows 42 Nigerians aged 13 to 17 years who were rescued in Ghana from forced sexual exploitation in an operation involving the Ghana Police Service.

Speaking to the media, he warned that the issue is becoming a worrying trend, with hundreds of Nigerians reportedly being trafficked to Ghana each year under the pretext of employment, but instead being forced into prostitution and cyber crime, citing Q-Net as a specific example.

"I will like to call on the Nigerian government to look at addressing this issue of its citizens being trafficed into Ghana, it's becoming a worrying trend where every year hundreds of Nigerian citizens are trafficed into Ghana.

"And a lots of them are forced into prostitution, some are also forced into cyber crime specifically the Q-Net," he stated.

He added that last year, Challenging Height, in collaboration with the Ghana Police Service, rescued over 80 Nigerian citizens who had been trafficked into Ghana to be forced into prostitution and cyber crime, after which they were sent back to Nigeria.

He noted that the Ghana Police Service alone, without Challenging Height, has been rescuing many of them every year.

He stressed that some of the girls suffer serious health implications while still being forced to have sex with men, and that others are compelled to sleep with 20 men in a day.

He said one of the 42 rescued girls was pregnant, and that she is 14 years old.

He said the girl confirmed she was forced to sleep with more than 10 men in a day, explaining that such abuse brings severe health consequences for the victims.

"If I tell you what we are seeing with this rescue and even with previous rescues some of the girls the health conditions that they are in, just imagine a teenage girl who is forced into sleeping with 20 men a day, do you know the health implications," he questioned.

"One of the girls who is pregnant and she said she is 14 years old, she is pregnant and yet she is being forced to sleep with more than 10 men a day," he said.