Ekweremadu Asks Senate To Legalise Prostitution Www.dailytrust.com.ng


Can you guys beat this!. This is what is on the front burner in our senate

Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu yesterday asked the Senate to consider the possibility of legalising prostitution in the country.

Speaking during debate on a motion on the scourge of human trafficking in the country, Ekweremadu said since it has become impossible to stop prostitution in the land, the Senate should consider regulating the act in the country.

According to him "we need to regulate prostitution in this country so that if anyone wants to indulge in prostitution, the person should be registered and issued with a license. If we say we want to stop it, it would be difficult. It is done in other countries; let us regulate it by issuing license."

Also speaking on the matter, Senate President David Mark said it is difficult to stop the act of prostitution saying "the FCT administration has been trying to stop but they are facing stiff resistance because the prostitutes have their association and even their own legal adviser. It is a reasonably organised bad profession."

While debating on the motion that centred on human trafficking, several senators advocated for amendment to the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) Act to provide for capital punishment for those involved in human trafficking.

The position followed a motion on the scourge of human trafficking in the country moved by Senator Dahiru Awaisu Kuta (PDP, Niger East) and 33 other senators.

In his motion, Kuta said though NAPTIP is struggling to tackle the menace of human trafficking in the country, "the situation has been on the increase and has been identified as the world's fastest growing criminal industry, second only to drug trafficking and fraud.

In his contribution, Senator Uche Chukwumerije (PDP, Abia) said "we should upgrade the punishment for human trafficking to capital punishment. Equally to be joined are all the security personnel that are along the route where it take place. I don't believe that it is happening without the knowledge of the security agencies along the entry and exit points."
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Also commenting, Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume (PDP, Borno South) said there is need for more punitive measures to end the menace saying "human trafficking is not only in terms of export. We have house boys and girls in the country that don't have any future. Most of them are not even up to the age specified by law. They work for so many years and all they get is commendation without any form of future."

On his part, Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed (CPC, Kaduna North) expressed worry on the ugly dimension of human ritual to the crime of trafficking in persons. He revealed several instances of victims kidnapped and used for 'devil worship'.

After the debate, Senate directed its committee on judiciary, human rights and legal matters to carry out further legislative action on the matter and report back to the whole Senate.
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Good move

Wrong move.

soon they will legalise HIV itself!
naija, we hail thee o

Prostitution is the oldest profession in the world so it makes sense, that profession predates all of us.

Ekweremadu shall not be getting any vote from me, if ever. These politicians should be working hard to remedy the sociological and psychological effect of the economic ill termed poverty, induced by a lack of visionary leadership. Rather, they want quick Fix. It is time we shelf politics in Nigeria and jus have the judiciary legalising and de-legalising all issues.

Ibo man

Legalize prostitution and let's move on to better topic abeg. What is so wrong in pay-as-you-go for goodness sake?

seanet02:

Ibo man

Bros, this is one sharp Igbo man, i support him.

I don't get Nigerians,
1: We have legalized Corruption
2: We have legalized Non-Accountability
3: We have legalized Bribery
4: We have legalized Police Brutality
5: We have legalized weak Education Systems
6: We have legalized traffic-violations by uniformed men
7: We have legalized wrongful-trial
8: We have legalized Software/Music Piracy
9: We have legalized killing of Children identified as witches
10: We have legalized smoking of indian-hemp /crack-cocaine by sitting and ex-governors (one who resides on bourdillion ikoyi)
11: We have legalized strip-joints, drinking and smoking in public

What da heck p.rostitution should join the boat too

HIV is a disease hence how can a disease be legal or illegal?

do you mean to tell me porsititition is illegal

unbelevable!

prostitution is legal is soo many countries , infact lots of countries make money from sex tourist from germany, brazil, jamaica,italy etc, whether they legalize it or not it is here to stay. welcome to the 21st century , you guys want civilization and freedom ? well here it is

Legalize it jare.

Whats the difference between girls who demand BB and the full time registered ones

Good thinking

Anoda sodom and gomorah in 9ja? Ekwere-prostitute shld bow his head in shame. Shame on a whole senator of d federal rep

Has anyone noticed that this man has never made one meaningful contribution since he became deputy senate president?

dankol:

Anoda sodom and gomorah in 9ja? Ekwere-LovePeddler shld bow his head in shame. Shame on a whole senator of d federal rep

Nigeria is already Sodom and Gomorrah . . . name the evil . .  we dey pack am boku for that country . .  so   Stop thinking you are not already there.


I used to be against this but considering the condition of women to this day in that country, I am swayed to support this move. This is a move that will potentially reduce the high number of violations against females in that nation. I really hope this goes to helping empower the women folk, and get them more aware of their rights by LAW.

Cannot help politically to be in support of legalizing prostitution, despite it probably making the most sense policy-wise.

Interesting that he is pushing for this.

I think he made d wright move since majority of 9ja are jobless

Source?

At least they will be paying tax. Fashola will be very happy with this move

I support this. Legalize, regulate and tax it. Drugs should be legalized and regulated too. These things would always be there and making them illegal would take them underground. This would make it more dangerous for society. Making them legal doesn't mean we support it, the fact is that they (the prostitutes) are not hurting anybody; leave them alone. Prostitution and drugs are safer regulated. Legalize them, so that the police can spend more resources doing better things than chasing prostitutes all over the place.

Great move

I fail to understand the benefits of this move. How does legalizing prostitution empower women or benefit the nation? Tax revenues? Company registration? Stock market listing? Please enlighten me.

how will they be paying tax? they will register in an ashewo company?
abegi make i go create my company, ASHEWO and sons limited
mschew oshi oda ni ile pako

This man is really insane. Now wat? After legalising protitution, the next thing is to consider same sex marriage. Pathetic, Very pathetic

There are countless benin and ibo girls that are into prostitu-tion;maybe legalizing it would mean they will pay tax to government.Legalizing illegality,may God have mercy on 9ja !

if prostitution is legalized and a customer wants to pay with a card, where is he going to swipe or insert the card after he as been provided with the service?

Civilization or Evilazation

llbhuds:

if prostitution is legalized and a customer wants to pay with a card, where is he going to swipe or insert the card after he as been provided with the service?

Seems you don't know the real meaning of ASEWO ?

Please where is this world heading too?