The Command’s Spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday.
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It was gathered that the rescued girls went through a six-month rehabilitation programme during which they were trained in different businesses before their eventual graduation
Twelve young ladies were on Tuesday arraigned at an Abeokuta Magistrate Court in Ogun State over alleged prostitution and indecent behaviour.
The Permanent Secretary in charge of the department, Alhaji Aminu Balarabe-Isah, made this known Tuesday at the formal inauguration of vocational training for 575 repentant commercial sex workers in Bauchi.
CIEPUK National President, Prof. Marcel Ezenwoye made made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday.
Malam Aminu Balarabe-Isah, Permanent Commissioner in charge of Hisbah and Sharia Omplementation, made this known in Bauchi on Monday during a sensitisation workshop organised for commercial sex workers.
Speaking to journalists on Saturday, Idoko said the training was aimed at changing the lives of the women for a better future, by becoming self-reliant, explaining that the programme was held at Sabon Tasha Area, a Kaduna suburb, and some other parts of the state.
The sex workers told the News Agency of Nigeria in separate interviews on Monday in Sokoto that the measure had protected them from the HIV virus and other Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs).
The country has, however, given strict rules under which sex workers are to return to work, including sex positions to adopt and keeping faces “one forearm length apart” during sex.
Some female commercial sex workers around a popular night club (name withheld) in Government Residential Area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State say the closure of night clubs has affected their businesses.
Fifty-nine commercial sex workers have been arrested by the Department of State Security in Calabar, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
The national coordinator of the sex workers said everybody is at risk of whatever he does, adding that sex workers faced a lot of violence, especially from their clients, thugs and law enforcement agents