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Bauchi Govt to conduct headcount of all state ‘ashawos’
Bauchi State Government says it will conduct a headcount of all commercial sex workers in the state with a view to having accurate data on them.
Bauchi State Government says it will conduct a headcount of all commercial sex workers in the state with a view to having accurate data on them.
Permanent commissioner in charge of Hisbah and Sharia implementation Aminu Balarabe-Isah made this known in Bauchi on Monday during a sensitisation workshop organised for commercial sex workers.
However, he said the information generated from the exercise would help the commission in taking measures aimed at discouraging them from continuing with their dangerous trade.
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Isah disclosed plans by the state government to organise empowerment programmes for them, as well as provide them with capital to start small scale businesses.
A further explanation pointed that investigations conducted by the government agency indicated that most of the sex workers took to prostitution as a result of illiteracy, poverty or maltreatment meted on them by their step-mothers.
He said that minor family squabbles also contributed to their decision to take to prostitution, assuring that government would make efforts to reunite them with their parents.