The Executive Director of the Challenging Heights, a non-governmental organisation, Mr James Kofi Annan, has appealed to law enforcement agencies to enforce laws that prevent children from working on the Volta Lake.
The laws are the Human Trafficking Act (2005), the Children�s Act (1998) and the Domestic Violence Act (2007).
Mr Annan said this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Winneba on Friday.
He said because of the failure to enforce the laws some unscrupulous people had taken advantage to traffic children from the Central and Volta regions for fishing activities on the Volta Lake.
Mr Annan said his NGO last week rescued two children who were in worst forms of child labour at Kodidi Village in the Kpando District.
The children, aged 9 and 17, have been brought to Winneba and are being accommodated by the NGO.
Mr Annan said family members of the children were unable to persuade the fisherman working with the children to release them.
He said the fisherman, Daniel Ogbe, has been arrested and is being persecuted.
The NGO is providing the children with psychosocial recovery programme after which they would be assisted to go to school. The mother of the children would also be assisted with capital to trade in order to look after them.
Mr Annan said Kwesi Atta, aged 27 from Winneba, who was trafficked to Yeji at the age of 7, drowned in the Volta Lake last week during a fishing expedition and was buried at Accra Town, a village along the Volta Lake.
Challenging Heights field staff assisted in the retrieval of the body from the lake.
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