Moral fibre runs through every law made in this world. In every society, human behaviour and practices are legitimately regulated to protect and uphold maximum standards of decency and civility. Moral laws are needed to prescribe how people are expected to conduct themselves in public places so as to observe some level of disciple and social conformity.
Such laws may include laws against public indecencies, prostitution, nudity or obscenity, lewdness and so forth. The Criminal Code (Act 29/60) of Ghana has dedicated a portion of its content to treat offences against public morals. Read them below:
Soliciting For Immoral Purposes
Section 275 of the Criminal Code bans any person from persistently soliciting or importuning clients for prostitution or for any other immoral purposes.
Trading In Prostitution
Since prostitution is a criminal offence, anyone who either lives wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution also offends the law. Similarly, if a person abets or aids a prostitute for the purposes of gains, that person is equally guilty of trading in prostitution.
For example, offering your apartment or part of it at a fee, for the purposes of prostitution presupposes that you are living off the earnings of prostitution. In this case, you are considered by law to be trading in prostituting.
Note: It is irrelevant whether the sexual offers were personally not given. What matters is for anyone to engage in any service that seeks to promote in full or part of the act of prostitution, as source of income.