The state's commissioner for women and social welfare, Ify Obinabo, along with the state police command, stormed another brothel where girls were being held captive and used for prostitution, intensifying the fight against juvenile prostitution in Anambra State.
This is in response to a viral video that has been going around on social media since last Friday about a brothel owned by a woman known as "Madam Venza," which was allegedly used to camp out young girls for prostitution and child trafficking.
The facility is located at Umuagu Umuogali in Oba, in the Idemili South Local Government Area of the state. When the team of government representatives and security personnel reached there on Saturday, nobody was there because all of the occupants had gone.
Our source learned that the brothel owners gathered the girls and other employees and fled into an unidentified area when they realized the viral video would cause security personnel to react.
However, the commissioner and her squad met everywhere, including with doors and windows wide open, after storming the brothel in pursuit of the females.
In response to the events following the raid on the brothel, Obinabo emphasized Anambra's unwavering commitment to the battle against child prostitution while revealing that steps had been taken to apprehend the owners of the aforementioned brothel and save the girls who were being housed there.
She bemoaned the high levels of child trafficking, prostitution, and sexual enslavement in the state and vowed that the state administration wasn't going to give up until these crimes were minimized to the absolute minimum.
Although we were unable to apprehend the suspect with the assistance of the police and vigilantes, steps have been taken to both capture her and save the girls in her refuge.
“The high rate of child prostitution, trafficking, and sexual slavery in the state is a worrisome development, the state government will not relent until such acts are reduced to the barest minimum,” she added.
