The
chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC, Abdullahi Candido has condemned
in strong terms the conversion of shops at the Nyanya market, Abuja into
brothels, residential houses and schools.
Officials
of the council discovered on Wednesday when it embarked on the evacuation of
street traders at the market that several shops have been turned into
residential houses, schools and “red light district” by women of easy virtue.
One of
the resident commercial sex workers at the Nyanya market said the place was her
only source of livelihood, especially now that the economic recession was biting
really hard on the country.
“You know
say the market no get gate, so e dey open 24/7, people dey stay for here from
night till morning. I don dey do this business for this place; e don reach like
two years
now. As
Naija hard so, na only dis place dey help us survive.
Dem dey
give us from one thousand to three thousand, but if business bad, we deny
reduce am. If you come here in the night now, you go see plenty customers for
here,” she revealed.Meanwhile, security agents who entered one of the shops,
bumped into a commercial sex worker and her supposed client. She, however,
claimed that he was not a client, but her lover who came to visit her.
The
security men, however, arrested three ladies and two men engaging in sexual
activities in the shop turned into a brothel.
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I was part of the team that went with the Chairman.
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