Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt (1725-98) was an Italian adventurer famous or if you like notorious for capturing in memoirs he composed, sexual escapades he indulged in. He bequeathed the English Language the word ‘Casanova’, which today represents a sex-obsessed person.
Vyacheslav Trahov, a young Russian tourist, perhaps not even knowing the Italian adventurer, visited Ghana on a sexual mission linked to his content creation occupation on social media. He achieved his objective of capturing his engagement with Ghanaian girls or lasses, leaving our land desecrated.
The mental torture his victims are enduring when the story broke out can only be conjectured. How did he succeed in doing what he set out to do without being caught, and how could the girls be so naïve as to follow a stranger to his hotel room?
Although the contents of his engagements with the victims he uploaded have since been deleted, they did not escape the prying eyes of thousands of Ghanaians who viewed them and perhaps copied same.
The accompanying moral concerns raised by a cross section of Ghanaians demand a national conversation about how our ladies give in to overtures from strangers, especially foreigners.
Such stories are not commensurate with our Ghanaian values.
We cannot allow this nonsense in our country, more so when they are perpetrated by foreigners.
Although the likely actions which took place while the randy Russian and his Ghanaian catches were in the hotel bedroom did not make it to social media, it is unknown whether he captured these or not. Could the bad guy be keeping such videos for a later date release for the world to see how some of our girls can be easily lured by complete strangers?
The Ghana Immigration Service can easily release details of this man so the next line of action can be taken. Such details can be released on social media so he can be identified and stopped in his trails as he heads elsewhere, and vulnerable girls protected.
Besides the foregone, relevant authorities can keep him in view so his future plans of returning to Ghana can be stopped.
The lessons this has bequeathed to us are enormous; let our young girls learn from this and be wise.
Driven by obsession for materialistic possessions, some of these girls are ready to do anything to achieve these regardless of the repercussions that await them.
Another dark side of social media has played out, and painfully so.