The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed a suit seeking fundamental rights for commercial sex workers in the Federal Capital Territory to operate without intimidation from security agencies of the federal government.......CONTINUE READING THE ARTICLE FROM THE SOURCE>>>>>
The judgment was delivered on Wednesday by Justice James Omotosho, who declared that prostitutes have no legal rights under any known law or the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Justice Omotosho stated that commercial sex workers were even liable to be arrested and prosecuted, facing a jail term of up to two years under the criminal law known as the Penal Code.
The sex workers had sought a court order preventing the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, and the Abuja Environmental Protection Board from intimidating, harassing, arresting, and prosecuting them in Abuja.
They also requested the court to enforce their fundamental human right to engage in prostitution, as allegedly enshrined in Nigerian law.
However, while delivering the judgment, Justice Omotosho ruled that the plaintiffs’ application was incompetent.
The judge further declared that even if it were competent, the reliefs sought by the commercial sex workers were not grantable, dismissing the suit for lack of merit.
