Officials of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Enforcement Unit, popularly called Task Force, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos State,have arrested 44 suspected commercial sex workers.
The suspects were arrested at Isaac John Street, Ikeja GRA and Sanusi Fafunwa Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Some of the suspects denied being prostitutes but claimed to be either fashion designers, traders or students, who went to their customers when they were arrested.
Others said they were traders who have to stay late on the streets.
Chairman of the Task Force, Bayo Sulaiman, a Superintendent of Police, said the suspects were arrested following public complaints about their activities and the nuisance they constituted to the environment.
Officials of the task fore said the suspected prostitute will soon be charged to court.
Following the expose of the nefarious activities at Lagos Unclad clubs, where young ladies dance stark Unclad and practice live sex on stage to entertain their patrons, the state government has wielded the big stick by shutting them down.
The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Monitoring Unit which raided the four strip clubs on the Opebi-Allen axis of Ikeja also arrested 33 Unclad dancers and two of the clubs’ managers.
The four Unclad clubs are Club Unique, Wallstreet, Cazzbah and Magic City formerly known as Ocean Blue.
Club Unique is on Ogundana Street off Allen Avenue while Wallstreet is located at 70B Allen Avenue. Magic City, formerly called Ocean Blue, is located adjacent to Sweet Sensation Bus Stop and Cazzbah is adjacent to Opebi Bus Stop.
Before the raids on the clubs were carried out, some task force officials had visited the clubs disguised as patrons.
They monitored the clubs’activities for a night before raiding them in the wee hours of the following day.
Chairman, Lagos State Environmental Taskforce, Bayo Sulaiman said government shut the clubs as a result of public outcry over their existence.
Sulaiman added that most of the clubs had become hideouts for criminals and undesirable elements.
He stressed that the strip clubs were not registered and were not regulated.
Immediately the report over the activities of the Unclad clubs was published, the Archbishop of Lagos State, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, lamented that evil has completely taken over Lagos and called on Governor Babatunde Fashola to act immediately to arrest the trend by shutting them down.
Okogie called on Fashola to act now because the strip clubs are on the increase, while those shut earlier had re-opened with impunity and with a change of name.
While some Lagosians called on the state government not to shut the strip clubs but simply regulate them as adult fun exists in all mega cities, most people kicked against their existence and simply called on Governor Fashola to close them down.
A 24-year Ghanaian lady,Traore Anida, who was among the strippers arrested during the busting of the club, said she started the job a month ago because she was desperately in need of fund to go back to her country.
She said she was brought to Nigeria by a woman whom she said is based in the Republic of Benin.
Emma Ofor, manager of Club Unique who was arrested along with the 33 strippers, said that he joined the club in January this year, adding that poverty made him to accept the offer.
Goddy Benjamin, manager of Wall Street Club who was also arrested along with the strippers denied that ladies go Unclad in the clubs to entertain patrons.
Benjamin stated that the activities at the club are regulated and the club obtained licence from local government for its operation.
The Task Force Chairman has called on the general public to supply the outfit with more information on where strip clubs operate.
The suspects were arrested at Isaac John Street, Ikeja GRA and Sanusi Fafunwa Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Some of the suspects denied being prostitutes but claimed to be either fashion designers, traders or students, who went to their customers when they were arrested.
Others said they were traders who have to stay late on the streets.
Chairman of the Task Force, Bayo Sulaiman, a Superintendent of Police, said the suspects were arrested following public complaints about their activities and the nuisance they constituted to the environment.
Officials of the task fore said the suspected prostitute will soon be charged to court.
Following the expose of the nefarious activities at Lagos Unclad clubs, where young ladies dance stark Unclad and practice live sex on stage to entertain their patrons, the state government has wielded the big stick by shutting them down.
The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Monitoring Unit which raided the four strip clubs on the Opebi-Allen axis of Ikeja also arrested 33 Unclad dancers and two of the clubs’ managers.
The four Unclad clubs are Club Unique, Wallstreet, Cazzbah and Magic City formerly known as Ocean Blue.
Club Unique is on Ogundana Street off Allen Avenue while Wallstreet is located at 70B Allen Avenue. Magic City, formerly called Ocean Blue, is located adjacent to Sweet Sensation Bus Stop and Cazzbah is adjacent to Opebi Bus Stop.
Before the raids on the clubs were carried out, some task force officials had visited the clubs disguised as patrons.
They monitored the clubs’activities for a night before raiding them in the wee hours of the following day.
Chairman, Lagos State Environmental Taskforce, Bayo Sulaiman said government shut the clubs as a result of public outcry over their existence.
Sulaiman added that most of the clubs had become hideouts for criminals and undesirable elements.
He stressed that the strip clubs were not registered and were not regulated.
Immediately the report over the activities of the Unclad clubs was published, the Archbishop of Lagos State, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, lamented that evil has completely taken over Lagos and called on Governor Babatunde Fashola to act immediately to arrest the trend by shutting them down.
Okogie called on Fashola to act now because the strip clubs are on the increase, while those shut earlier had re-opened with impunity and with a change of name.
While some Lagosians called on the state government not to shut the strip clubs but simply regulate them as adult fun exists in all mega cities, most people kicked against their existence and simply called on Governor Fashola to close them down.
A 24-year Ghanaian lady,Traore Anida, who was among the strippers arrested during the busting of the club, said she started the job a month ago because she was desperately in need of fund to go back to her country.
She said she was brought to Nigeria by a woman whom she said is based in the Republic of Benin.
Emma Ofor, manager of Club Unique who was arrested along with the 33 strippers, said that he joined the club in January this year, adding that poverty made him to accept the offer.
Goddy Benjamin, manager of Wall Street Club who was also arrested along with the strippers denied that ladies go Unclad in the clubs to entertain patrons.
Benjamin stated that the activities at the club are regulated and the club obtained licence from local government for its operation.
The Task Force Chairman has called on the general public to supply the outfit with more information on where strip clubs operate.
HOW STUPID AND IGNORANT ARE THE ARRESTING OFFICERS FOR ARRESTING STRIPPERS... STRIPPING IS A FORM OF ART PRACTICE EVERY WHERE IN THE WORLD. MEN, THAT ISLAMIST GOV OF LAGOS SHOULD DO HIS JOBS IN LINE WITH THE CONSTITUTION AND STOP ACTING LIKE A FOOL!
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