58-year-old woman, others remanded in prison for prostitution

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Lagos State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Igbosere
on Wednesday remanded a 58-year-old woman,
Sandra Akomake alongside four other women in
prison custody after pleading guilty to a one-count
charge of prostitution.
Akomake and four other women, Helen Ugwu,34,



Chika Okoro,40, Roseline Jebba, 43, and a 61-year-
old Ordega Theresa were arrested on Tuesday for
allegedly soliciting for sex in exchange for money.
The prosecutor, Sgt. Nicholas Akeene told the court
that the accused persons committed the offence at
about 11.pm at Thompson Avenue in Ikoyi area of
the state on Tuesday.
According to the prosecutor, the offence
contravened Section 142 (1) (a) (b) of the Criminal
Law of Lagos State 2011.
Ugwu, Okoro and Jebba pleaded guilty to the one
count charge, but the fifth suspect,61-year-old
Theresa claimed not guilty.
“I know nothing about this,” Theresa said.
Her counsel, S.A. Owhoraye, said she was a trader
and applied for her bail.
The magistrate, Mrs. Matepo, granted Theresa bail in
the sum of N50,000 and two sureties in like sum,
while she ordered that the others be remanded in
prison.
Matepo adjourned the case till November 30 for
facts and sentencing.