58-YEAR-OLD WOMAN, OTHERS REMANDED IN PRISON FOR PROSTITUTION

A Lagos State Magistrates’ Court
sitting in Igbosere on Wednesday
remanded a 58-year-old woman,
Sandra Akomake alongside four other
women in prison custody after

pleading guilty to a one-count charge
of prostitution.
Akomake and four other women,
Helen Ugwu,34, Chika Okoro,40,
Roseline Jebba, 43, and a 61-year-
old Ordega Theresa were arrested
on Tuesday for allegedly soliciting
for sex in exchange for money.
The prosecutor, Sgt. Nicholas Akeene
told the court that the accused
persons committed the offence at
about 11.pm at Thompson Avenue
in Ikoyi area of the state on Tuesday.
According to the prosecutor, the
offence contravened Section 142 (1)
(a) (b) of the Criminal Law of Lagos
State 2011.
Ugwu, Okoro and Jebba pleaded
guilty to the one count charge, but
the fifth suspect,61-year-old Theresa
claimed not guilty.
“I know nothing about this,” Theresa
said.
Her counsel, S.A. Owhoraye, said she
was a trader and applied for her
bail.
The magistrate, Mrs. Matepo,
granted Theresa bail in the sum of
N50,000 and two sureties in like
sum, while she ordered that the
others be remanded in prison.
Matepo adjourned the case till
November 30 for facts and
sentencing.

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