Abuja Olosho Members Lose Major Legal Battle The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has turned down a suit seeking inborn rights for commercial sex workers in the Federal Capital Territory to operate without intimidation from security agencies of the federal government.
The judgment was delivered on Wednesday by Justice James Omotosho, who publicised that prostitutes have no legal rights under some known law or the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Justice Omotosho disclosed that commercial sex workers were even liable to be arrested and prosecuted, confronting 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 further requested the court to enforce their inbred human right to engage in prostitution, as allegedly enshrined in Nigerian law.
However, while delivering the judgment, Justice Omotosho governed that the plaintiffs’ application was incompetent.
The judge further publicised that even if it were able, the reliefs sought by the commercial sex workers were not grantable, declining the suit for lack of merit.
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Published 3/12/2025