Operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad have arrested a 15-year-old primary school leaver allegedly engaging in prostitution.

She was arrested alongside John Okon, the owner of Collabor Hotel, an inn on Ige Street, Iyana Ipaja, Lagos, and his hotel manager, Emmanuel Thomas, for allegedly hosting underage s*x workers in the facility.

One Destiny Bassey, 19, and 18-year-old Bright Effiong, who was said to have been at the inn for three years, were also picked up by the operatives. The hotel operators admitted to providing service for the s*x workers, except the 15-year-old girl.

According to reports, the 15-year-old girl was said to have been brought from her village in the eastern part of the country by one Monica Ita, a few weeks ago, on the pretext that she (Ita) would get her a good job.

The hotel manager, Thomas, said, “It is true that we provide rooms for s*x workers where men visit them. We collect N5,000 from them (the s*x workers) every week. We don’t give them out to men; they bring their customers themselves.”

In an interview, the 15-year-old revealed that Ita persuaded her to come to Lagos when she (Ita) saw her playing around the village. She said, “Some days after I got to Lagos, she took me to the hotel to do prostitution.

I had yet to get a room when the police came to pick us.”

He made the call while hosting a delegation from the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Allocation Commission (RMFAC), at the Government House.

While describing the current sharing formula between the three tiers of government in the country as obsolete, the Governor pointed out that both the states and local governments are not getting appropriate share of the revenue mostly because the data used in allocating revenue are also obsolete.

Governor Sule pointed out that no local government area in Nasarawa State can be able to pay salaries of workers without support from the state government mostly because the data used in allocating revenue to the councils are not correct.

“Nasarawa State should be able to generate enough revenue on our own, to sustain herself and then what will come from the federal will be to supplement the effort of what the state is doing,” he said.

In his remarks, leader of the RMFAC delegation, Patrick Mgbebu, said the team were in the North Central to carry out advocacy and sensitization on data generation and management, for the review of the revenue allocation indices for states and local governments.

Mgbebu, who is the Federal Commissioner representing Ebonyi State, said only a transparent exercise can ensure justice, equity and fairness to all parties.

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