Commercial sex workers adopt ‘door to door’ tactics

Due to the recent clampdown on the activities of commercial sex workers by the FCT Administration, such workers now go from door to door in residential areas soliciting for customers.

Head of Enforcement, Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB), Mr Olusegun Olusa, said the clampdown on commercial sex workers on Abuja streets by an FCTA inter-agency committee since June 2010, has scared them off streets in the city centre.

According to him, such women have moved to a higher level by knocking on people’s doors after shadowing such houses and flats to ensure the occupants are single.

He warned commercial sex workers, who took advantage of the elections period to continue their activities on Abuja streets, to desist forthwith from such acts or risk arrest and prosecution.

Mr. Olusa advised them to leave the trade and patronise the services of a new rehabilitation centre to be commissioned next Tuesday at Lugbe, adding that they can acquire skills and help create jobs.

He said a gender focal office has been opened in all FCT secretariats and agencies ahead of the full establishment of the Department of Gender in the Social Development Secretariat for which provision has been made in the 2011 budget.