The Edo State says scores of arrested sex workers during enforcement operations on ‘red light district’ areas in Benin City to court as part of effort curb prostitution.
Addressing journalists during the parade of suspects, the Director General, Edo State Migration Agency, Lucky Agagzuma said the move was part of government renewed onslaught against prostitution and human trafficking in the State.
He also disclosed government plans to rehabilitate sex workers who expressed regret over that actions and empower them economically in collaboration with vocational skills.
Available data indicate that most sex workers operating at brothels and streets are migrants from other States, according to Agagzuma who said, “As part of our strategies, we have been able to get businesses for many of them”.
He also said, “We have partnered with TVET, SSEB in education and other bodies working with us to see that they are out of the street and prostitution”.
TheNewspad reports that some of the commercial sex workers, pledged to desist from the illicit act and embrace legitimate means of livelihood.
In an interview, a sex worker, who identified herself only as Faith from Kogi State, said, “I have been doing the job since the past one week”, while her counterpart who was arrested in front of a popular hotel in Benin, alleged that she “was arrested while trekking down the road in Benin.
