Anambra State government through the Operation Clean And Healthy Anambra, OCHA Brigade’s Yuletide 24/7 taskforce led by the Managing Director of the agency, Comrade Celestine Anere has raided a brothel which is located on the popular Club Road in Awka.
Angel Network News (ANN) reports that
the state government rescued 24 girls being trafficked for prostitution whose ages range from 13 to 27 at the brothel
The victims narrated to the press how they were forced into the work by the manager of the brothel and were locked inside different rooms. They appreciated the state government for setting them free.
In a related development, the OCHA brigade taskforce also raided underground shanties on the same road where suspected hoodlums use as command centre to traffick illicit drugs and for robberies.
The brigade during the raid also uncovered different locally made weapons.
Speaking, Comrade Anere expressed the determination of the command to sanitize the state of all sorts of criminally minded individuals that are bent on making the state ungovernable.
He assured OCHA brigade being an official task force of the state government is always ready to maintain law and order in the state and pointed out that the sealed brothel will remain sealed until all investigations are completed.
