No fewer than 35 underaged commercial sex workers were on Monday afternoon at Onitsha Police Area Command, Anambra State, paraded by the State Police Commissioner, Mr. Echeng E Cheng.
Parading them before newsmen, the Commissioner hinted that they were arrested at Gally-Gally hotel, Umusiome Nkpor, Idemili North Local Government Area, even as the owner of the hotel fled when the police team led by the Onitsha Police Area Commander, Mr. John Obuagbaka, stormed the hotel.
The Commissioner expressed dissatisfaction that parents were not playing their role as expected on their children adding that it was what resulted in the prostitution business the underaged sex workers found themselves.
“Parents should learn how to monitor the activities of their kids and the company they keep. These kids who came from different states that include, Anambra, Delta, Rivers, Enugu, Ebonyi, Benue, among others were lured into prostitution business because their parents were not able to monitor the company they keep”
The Commissioner who spoke through the State Police Public Relay Officer, PPRO, Mr. Tochukwu Ikenga, added that already four of them were pregnant.
“The manager of the hotel and others are still at large but we arrested six others that received the girls on behalf of the own of the hotel including his Assistant, one Mrs. Udo Ifeoma and two security men that ensure the girls did not run away once they come into the hotel”
Among the items recovered from them included, three pump action guns, seven live cartridges and #877, 500 and two registers where names and money collected from them were written.
The girls told newsmen that they were lured into the business by friends and relatives who did not tell them that they were to be used as prostitutes
