Arrest Of Women In Abuja: What Nigerian law says about prostitution
police officers of raping them in exchange for their freedom. The police have pledged to investigate the allegations.
“However, it is important to note that the Criminal Code criminalises “procuring and other related offences,” which although may have a slight affiliation to prostitution, are not one and the same. “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.
“Therefore, the Penal Code that penalises people meeting with prostitutes or prostitutes meeting with other people might fail if tested in the court,” he saidHowever, 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 leave Nigeria with intent that she may become an inmate of a brothel...
“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
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