ACCRA, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Ghana police on Sunday confirmed reports that 46 of its officers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan had been sent back home.
The reports said late Saturday that the mission in South Sudan had recalled a Ghanaian police unit working at one of its protection camps to pave way for investigation into allegations that some of them had been involved in sexual abuse.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan said it had asked the 46-member unit to return to the capital Juba from its Protection of Civilians site in Wau, northwest of Juba, after an investigation was launched into a complaint that members of the unit were having sexual relations with women living at the camp.
Responses to Xinhua's enquiry indicated that the Ghana Police High Command had knowledge of the development and was working on a release to state its official position on the matter.
