FCTA Prosecutes 89 Commercial Sex Workers

Olawale Ajimotokan in Abuja

The Joint Task Team for the Cleansing of Abuja City has arrested 89 commercial sex workers, for constituting public nuisance.

The task team was recently reconstituted by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello.

The Acting Director of the FCT Directorate of Road Traffic Services, Mr. Wadata Aliyu Bodinga, said yesterday that the task team had prosecuted prostitutes and handed them to the Social Development Secretariat for rehabilitation to enable them learn useful skills.
Bodinga said there was a substantive order against the activities of commercial sex workers in the federal capital territory.

He also said team impounded 114 unpainted taxis within the first one week of its operations. Bodinga disclosed that 104 Keke Napep (Tricycles) were also impounded and riders prosecuted at the Mobile Courts during the same period.
He disclosed that during the one-week operation of the Task Team, eight commercial Motorcycles (Okada) were impounded and noted that in the subsequent weeks special attention would be given to impounding and arrest of Okada.

According to him, the Task Team would hit the Okada riders from all angles from the Airport road, Gishiri village, Wuye, AYA and Asokoro area; warning that all those arrested would face instant prosecution.
The Director, however, urged the residents of the Federal Capital Territory to assist the FCT Administration by not patronising the unpainted taxis, Keke Napep, Okadas as well as the commercial sex workers.
He warned that their existence have security implications because they are veritable channels being used by the criminals which is in nobody’s interest.