The Federal Capital Territory Special Task Team set up by former FCT Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, said it had arrested 3,000 commercial sex workers who have been plying their trade in the nation’s capital. FCT Permanent Secretary, Mr John Chukwu (an engineer) disclosed this in Abuja yesterday after a meeting with the chairman of the team who is also the FCT Police Commissioner, Mr Wilson Inalegwu, in his office.
Chukwu, who is supervising the FCT Administration (FCTA) pending the appointment of a substantive minister by President Muhammadu Buhari, also disclosed that the team had impounded 4,790 commercial motorcycles otherwise called Okada and 883 Keke NAPEP (tricycles) in the last 90 days.
The permanent secretary added that a total of 645 unpainted commercial vehicles as well as 84 illegal commercial buses operating in the FCT were also impounded. He said: “Three thousand commercial sex workers have been arrested by the Task Team and handed over to the Abuja Environment Protection Board for prosecution and subsequent rehabilitation.”
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