COUP: SEX-WORKERS TAKES OVER LAGOS

In countries like Holland, Belgium, Germany, France or Italy, a professional sex-worker does pay tax to the government. More so, they must have clean medical permit to operate and they are also get protected by the securities. While am i saying this? The reason is simple, 

Nigerian government have destroyed the integrity of our ladies, majority of our graduate girls now cannot have any job to do, hence the power that be drove our girls into prostitution.

The Allen Avenue and Opebi axis is known as a hub for commercial sex workers in Lagos mainland. While Oju-Elegba, ,Adeniran Ogunsaya, Bar Beach in Lagos island are also a hot spot for commercial s ex workers.

According to Punch investigation, it was reveals that the numerous commercial sex workers who throng the Allen Avenue-Opebi and GRA Ikeja business districts in Lagos, make use of bank premises to service their customers for ‘’short-time’’ purpose only. It was gathered that security man at the bank collected between N500-N1000, while they protected their customer, the guard would also watch over the car of the client as well.

“If we were to go home, it would have been N10,000 but since it is short-time, I will take you somewhere but you will pay me N3,000 and the gateman will collect N500’’

However, it was also gathered that the activities of the commercial sex workers at the Allen Avenue-Opebi business district seem to be under a heavy police protection. Whom they ‘’settled’’ all the time.

A lady who recounted her ordeal in the hand of police around Opebi-Allen axis said,  “I was going to a club in the area with a friend on a Thursday night and just a few metres from where some prostitutes stood on the sides of the road, some policemen stopped us.

“They asked who I was and what kind of job I was doing. I told them I was a student but they said I was a prostitute and will arrest me. I was confused because there were so many prostitutes around there whom they did not arrest. But because I was not known there, they wanted to arrest me.

“We had to go and call one of the managers of the club to convince them I was not there as a prostitute but was there with my friend to relax.

“The club man (manager) who came to my rescue said all the girls around there are protected. But a new girl who comes there to operate will be arrested. Such girls will either bail themselves out with money or with sex.”

However,Mr. Damasus Ozoani,Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Police Command, said, “Of course, prostitution is still illegal in the state. But how do you prove those ladies you see standing on the sides of the road at that time of the night are prostitutes?

“Gone are those days when you could arrest people merely for wandering in the night. Policemen conduct searches in areas like that when they have genuine reason to believe that some people who have criminal intent may come there to operate.

“Those same ladies you see have the same legal rights to be protected by the police as you and I have. Unless the ladies are caught in sexual acts in a public place, one cannot conclude that they are prostitutes.”