for selling their gifts and abilities, court has sentenced 4 women to 200 hrs of sweeping for prostituting. in victoria island.

A Magistrate of a Tinubu Magistrates’ Courts has sentenced four women to 200 hours of community service after they pleaded guilty to the charge of prostitution brought against them by the police on Tuesday.

The women-Blessing Esu, 28; Nancy Brownson, 35; Patricia Timba, 34 and Josephine Idoga, 21- were asked to sweep and clean the Tinubu Magistrate’s Court and its environs for the period of the punishment.
The police had told the court that the ladies of easy virtue were caught on November 11, 2013 and on different streets soliciting customers.
The investigating police officer particularly said the area was within vicinity of banks.
A raid was said to have been conducted around 2.25am on the Victoria Island area of Lagos.
They were apprehended and detained by the police before being taken to court.
The single count read, “That you, Blessing Esu, Nancy Brownson, Patricia Timba, and Josephine Idoga, on November 11, 2013, at about 2.25am within different streets in Victoria Island, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District were found loitering for purpose of prostitution within banks vicinity.”
The prosecutor, Inspector Chidi Okoye, said the offence was contrary to and punishable under Section 166(a)(ii) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011