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A yet-to-be identified Nigerian lady has taken to social media to disclose that she has quit her day job as a sales representative to become a full-time runs girl.
The lady, speaking in a video making rounds online, said she arrived at the decision of facing her new found job after she was paid N50,000 by a client to satisfy his erotical desire for one night.
According to her, she has not earned that much in her three months of working as a sales representative and sees no reason to return to the job.
The lady, who was flaunting some naira notes in the video presumed to be her earnings from her night-out job, said she didn’t know prostitution is that lucrative and pays well.
Watch her video below:
What the law says about prostitution
It is against the background of prostitution being taken as a lucrative job by some women that some lawyers gave their views.
An Abuja-based lawyer, Oyero Ezekiel, said no law directly bans prostitution in Nigeria.
“This is an issue that has been raging for some time now. There’s actually no law that directly bans prostitution as the case may be in Nigeria.
“However, it is important to note that the Criminal Code criminalizes procuring and other related offences, which although may have a slight affiliation to prostitution, are not one and the same.
“A careful perusal shows the following sections of the Criminal Code (sections 223, 224 and 225A) only outlaw procuring, defilement by threat and administration of drugs on girls and women.”
Joseph Felix, a Jos-based lawyer, also said there is no general law against prostitution in Nigeria.
However, he said, “Issues like prostitution, indecent dressing and sexual assaults do not necessarily need a law to say they are prohibited.
“When they become prevalent, what the government does is to create a form of indictable offence. You may not try them for prostitution but you may try them for illegal assembly.”
Another lawyer, Johnson Omede, said while there is no place in the Constitution that prohibits prostitution, there are other laws that the constitution has empowered that provided for the crime.
“There is also the Penal Code Act of FCT, 1990 that provides against prostitution. It defines prostitutes as vagabonds. And whoever is convicted, has been found guilty of this offence, will be imprisoned for one month or a fine or both,” he said.
Francis Uchenobarim, a lawyer, agreed with Mr Omede. He said: “There is a section of the penal code that prohibits prostitution.
“In as much as the penal code has made these provisions, the Constitution is still clear on the right to freely associate with anybody.
“That is Right to Freedom of Association as contained in the Constitution. If we are to follow this Constitution, that means as a Nigerian, you are free to meet with whoever you want to meet with.
“Therefore, the Penal Code that penalizes people meeting with prostitutes or prostitutes meeting with other people might fail if tested in the court.”
Prostitution and the law
Although theNewsGuru.com (TNG) gathered that no particular part of the Constitution prohibits prostitution in Nigeria.
However, sections 223 of the Criminal Code states that: “Any person who procures a girl or woman who is under the age of eighteen years to have unlawful carnal connection with any other person or persons, either in Nigeria or elsewhere;
“Or procures a woman or girl to become a common prostitute, either in Nigeria, or elsewhere;
“Or procures a woman or girl to leave Nigeria with intent that she may become an inmate of a brothel elsewhere;
“Or procures a woman or girl to leave her usual place of abode in Nigeria, with intent that she may, for the purposes of prostitution, become an inmate of a brothel, either in Nigeria or elsewhere; is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for two years.
Meanwhile, FCT Penal Code Act criminalizes prostitution, solicitation.
Chapter 532 of the Penal Code Act, Federal Capital of Abuja, 1990 criminalizes prostitution and solicitation of prostitutes.
The law states that:
“An ‘Idle person’ shall include a common prostitute behaving in a disorderly or indecent manner in a public place or persistently importuning or soliciting persons for the purpose of prostitution.
“The term vagabond shall include any male person who knowingly lives wholly or in part on the earning of a prostitute or in any public place solicits or importunes for immoral purposes; and
“Whoever is convicted as a vagabond shall be punished with imprisonment which may extend to two years or with fine which may extend to four hundred and fifty naira or both.”
However, while the Abuja law criminalizes prostitution and solicitation of prostitutes, no male have been arrested for either prostitution or solicitation.
Recall that sometime April 2019, Police officers in Abuja arrested 70 women at different night clubs and detained at Utako police station, claiming that they are prostitutes. This came barely two weeks after 30 women were arrested in the same city for the same reason.
Also, some officials of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) had raided a popular night club, Caramelo, and arrested 34 female nude dancers.
It was gathered that some of the women were later released on bail while 32 others were charged to a mobile court, 27 were convicted and sentenced to one month in prison for prostitution.
