Great commotion pervaded Lao area of Akure metropolis yesterday, as commercial sex workers in conjunction with their client, collectively bounced on the security operatives attached to the Environmental Task Force monitoring the monthly environmental sanitation exercise.
Beaten inside-out, the body of the security operative were signed and stamp with various degree of injuries and their uniforms torn into bids.
The Task Force Team led by the Commissioner for the Environment, Chief Sola Ebiseeni, had set out early enough to ensure strict adherence to the monthly Environmental Exercise.
While on patrol, some people were arrested for absconding the environmental exercise. Violent confrontation, however, sprouted when the team got to the Inner Circle Hotel at Oke padi, off Lao street in Akure, and met the prostitutes with their clients. They were said to be making merry and adamant to the proceeding Environmental Exercise when the Task Force swoop in on them. The irate prostitute and there client brutishly manhandled the Civil Defence Official in attempt to evade arrest.
When it was obvious that the prostitutes and their clients had subdued the team, they put a distress call to the police and SSS headquarters for reinforcement. It took the intervention of additional security men comprising of mobile policemen, State Security Service official and Civil Defence before the security men could be rescued in the hands of their attackers.
When the Commissioner for Environment got to the scene, he ordered the hotel premises to be sealed off. Ebiseeni who was feasibly angered with the prostitutes’ action, asked the prostitutes and their clients to be arrested and taken to police station for further questioning. He said the offenders aside from facing environmental court would also be prosecuted for assault on government’s officials.
In a news briefing, he reported that 22 arrests were made on people violating environmental laws, and they will be charge to court immediately .
He warned that government would take over any uncompleted building that is constituting nuisance to the public as from Monday.
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