FCTA stops arrest of commercial sex workers

Kubwa Online

Sex Workers

The Social Development Secretariat (SDS) of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has recently relaxed on the arrest of sex workers in the territory.

The Secretary, SDS, Mrs. Blessing Onuh, at a press briefing explained that the secretariat had to quit on the realization that arresting the sex workers was not within its jurisdiction.

She said that while the secretariat was doing a good job, it was important for it to ensure that it was in line with global best practices, thus the decision to stop the arrests.

“Looking at social work from the perspective of global best practice, we were at the end here. SDS cannot make arrest. We cannot apprehend. It is not part of our responsibilities to go on the streets. Ours is to rehabilitate if you take these people off the streets as an enforcement agency and bring them to us,” Mrs. Onuh said.