cattle market near the border community of Amansea in Anambra State
are angry. The angry prostitutes destroyed shacks around their houses
after they were rendered homeless and flushed out by officials of the
Anambra State Urban Development Board (ASUDEB).
Vanguard reports that in a bid to deliver the area from kidnappers and
other related vices who use the brothel as hideout, ASUDEB officials
descended on the prostitutes at about 3pm with armed security
operatives. However, most of the prostitutes have already relocated to
the nearby Ugwuoba in Oji River local government area of Enugu State.
The prostitutes were however angry because they claimed they were not
notified before ASUDEB carried out the demolition. The prostitutes
also claimed ASUDEB was biased by leaving out some structures from the
demolition process, hence their anger and reason for destroying the
untouched structures in the cattle market. However, the General
Manager of ASUDEB, Mr. Nathan Enemuo, who led the operation, said the
exercise was part of Governor Willie Obiano's resolve to rid the state
of all kinds of crime and criminal activities in the state. He also
said that the prostitutes were notified three weeks before the
demolition process.
He said: "A lot of prostitutes live around Amansea cattle market,
spoiling our children and constituting nuisance in the area and you
know that anywhere there is brothel, criminals and kidnappers hover
around there. In my capacity as the ASUDEB general manager, I will
ensure that this does not exist anymore in the state and our
activities are in line with our amiable governor's policy on zero
tolerance to crime and kidnapping in the state."
Following the incessant public outcry against the increase of
prostitution and other social vices at Tinshama, a slum in the
Nassarawa Local Government of Kano State, Hisbah operatives have
recently arrested about 23 young girls for alleged prostitution, most
of them in their teen-years.
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