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  • 3,000 sex workers arrested in Abuja

    Three thousand commercial sex workers have been arrested by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Special Task Team on City Cleaning and Management in the last 90 days.

    They have been handed over to the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) for prosecution and rehabilitation.

    The task team also arrested 2,534 street hawkers and beggars. One hundred and two strayed animals were removed from illegal cattle markets in Gudu and other parts of the city during the period.

    The team impounded 4,790 commercial motorcycles, 883 Keke Napep, 645 unpainted commercial vehicles and 84 illegal commercial buses.

    Assistant Director/Chief Press Secretary (FCT), Muhammad Sule, spoke yesterday in a statement. He said the FCT Permanent Secretary, Mr. John Chukwu, an engineer, made the disclosure after a meeting with the Chairman of the Task Team and the FCT Police Commissioner, Mr. Wilson Inalegwu, in Abuja.

     

  • Sex workers jailed 3 months for loitering in Lagos

    A Tinubu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Wednesday sentenced two sex workers to three months imprisonment each for loitering and disorderly conduct.

    The convicts are Blessing Esu, 28, and Rita Ume, 36.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the women had pleaded guilty to the charges of loitering and behaving in a disorderly or indecent manner in public place.

    The Magistrate, Tokunbo Omoyele, who did not give the sex workers an option of fine, said the court had no option than to sentence them since they had admitted committing the offences.

    Earlier, the prosecutor, Sgt. Daniel Ighodalo, told the court that the two women committed the offences on March 1 at 2.30 a.m. on Victoria Island, Lagos.

    He said the offences contravened Sections 166 (a) (i) and (ii) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.