Prostitution in Nigerian law is illegal but how can we stop or reduce it?

[Iamgoat]

I stumbled on an Instagram video early this morning and I became emotional and heartbroken watching the video. Though I think the reason why the creator made the video was actually to pass a message, regardless, I was moved. It showed a video of a guy who went around the street at night requesting for little cash from prostitutes for his transport fare.

 In the video, many of those ladies declined him and some even pushed him away. Along the road, he found two ladies said to be prostitutes too and he approached them. Upon his approach, one of the girls immediately refuted him and asked him to leave but the other lady standing there with her sympathized with the guy and offered the guy some cash even after her friend had leave the scene. In the end, according to the guy in the video, he was only making his social media experiment on the street with the prostitutes to test their characters, he asked her several questions including her name and she told him adding she was a graduate and the guy offered the lady plenty bunch of money, afterwards.

By the way, what I learnt from the video was, many graduates out there have left their homes for major cities in Nigeria and end up as prostitute for their survival when these graduates are also aware of the consequences of their actions but have to go into the sex trade due to the demand for them to survive.

According to the Nigerian law, prostitution is illegal and the two main regions which are the northern and southern region of the country have their legal frameworks binding it. In the North, for instance, in the penal code in sections 275 - 278, prostitution has been criminalized. Likewise in the South, the Criminal code act sections 223 - 225 also criminalized prostitution and each of these provisions of the law have explicitly criminalized it with their variety of punishment. I also didn't mention the Sharia law which is vehemently against it too.

My question is, how can we get to stop or reduce this trade significantly, which have not only endangered the lives of our women but also destroy the lives of many in the name of searching for survival? What other avenues can we or they deploy and how best can we advise the government to curb these issues?

[Yucky]

My question is, how can we get to stop or reduce this trade significantly, which have not only endangered the lives of our women but also destroy the lives of many in the name of searching for survival? What other avenues can we or they deploy and how best can we advise the government to curb these issues?

if you have the chance to come back to this your post, can you tell me few reasons why stoping prostitute should be our major concern in this country? Is that the only thing that's enshrined in our constitution that's not being implemented?

It's not as if I'm in support of anyone that chooses to go into full time prostitution but if you look at it, the larger number of the girls do worse off things than those people you call prostitute, what should now be the penalty for those people? What about the peope that petronize them? Or the the fact that most prostitute building is even situated very close to the police station and they even petronize them more than the average person on the street.

Talking about prostitute at this time and stage of our economy is just like changing the national anthem when we have far pressing needs at hand that's begging for our attention.

[Iamgoat]

My question is, how can we get to stop or reduce this trade significantly, which have not only endangered the lives of our women but also destroy the lives of many in the name of searching for survival? What other avenues can we or they deploy and how best can we advise the government to curb these issues?

if you have the chance to come back to this your post, can you tell me few reasons why stoping prostitute should be our major concern in this country? Is that the only thing that's enshrined in our constitution that's not being implemented?

It's not as if I'm in support of anyone that chooses to go into full time prostitution but if you look at it, the larger number of the girls do worse off things than those people you call prostitute, what should now be the penalty for those people? What about the peope that petronize them? Or the the fact that most prostitute building is even situated very close to the police station and they even petronize them more than the average person on the street.

Talking about prostitute at this time and stage of our economy is just like changing the national anthem when we have far pressing needs at hand that's begging for our attention.

It still boils down to the economy hardship the country is passing through. You cant isolate the growing number of prostitution in Nigeria with the increase in umployment rate and poverty. At least , this is the case for most Nigerian graduates venturing into such trades.

You cant neglect the dangers in such practices because we are also dealing with the economy right now. These things are inseparable because majority of these girls are not happy being in the streets and are just looking for survival as a result of lack of job or good paying job that can cover their highly inflated livelihood.  Look at the health risks associated with it such as the STIs like HIV and how it can be dangerous to life. As of 2021, 1.9 million Nigerians were recorded to be living with HIV and 51 thousand of those numbers were recorded dead including children and adults. If the economy was good enough and many of these ladies could put decent food on their tables, don't you think prostitution will reduce?

Talking about those aiding it, like the owners of brothels and those patronizing the prostitutes, I don't leave them out of the discussion. The law must have also made a provision for punishing them.

[Yucky]

It still boils down to the economy hardship the country is passing through. You cant isolate the growing number of prostitution in Nigeria with the increase in umployment rate and poverty. At least , this is the case for most Nigerian graduates venturing into such trades.

it's not everything that's a product of a failed economic system, some of these things are first off, failure on the part of our parents and then it becomes the choice of the individual involved to go into prostitution or not. Most graduate girls that are in runs, hookup or prostitution started it while they were in school probably because of greed for easy and big money. It's not always that they are even poor or that they can't afford thier basic needs, some have it in Thier nature while others got influence into it and can't do away with it but at the end of it, prostitution is a personal choice thing. some people grew up in a worse environment than most of them but didn't go into it so Thier is no moral backing to it.

Do you think that even if we're able to fix the economic issue we're facing now that prostitution will stop? It wouldn't stop at all and it's just a question of choice to go into it or not to.

You cant neglect the dangers in such practices because we are also dealing with the economy right now. These things are inseparable because majority of these girls are not happy being in the streets and are just looking for survival as a result of lack of job or good paying job that can cover their highly inflated livelihood.  Look at the health risks associated with it such as the STIs like HIV and how it can be dangerous to life. As of 2021, 1.9 million Nigerians were recorded to be living with HIV and 51 thousand of those numbers were recorded dead including children and adults. If the economy was good enough and many of these ladies could put decent food on their tables, don't you think prostitution will reduce?

I don't think that the number of people dying because of STD surpasses the number of those dying because of hunger, maleria and typhod. Even maleria kills more people than STD and I'm never in support of them but prostitution is very far from being a part of our problem in this nation.

Talking about those aiding it, like the owners of brothels and those patronizing the prostitutes, I don't leave them out of the discussion. The law must have also made a provision for punishing them.

these things are openly situated at locations that are visible and assemble by the law enforcement agencies and except someone gets killed in those spots, we don't see or hear of a single arrest being made.

my submission on this matter is very simple, the root cause is prostitution and every other negative vices in the society is a product of poor parenting, bad decision making from the individual and the poor economy we have. Solving the economy alone can't solve the problem and at the moment, prostitution is far from our major problem in Nigeria.