CITY NEWS Police arrest 20 near Gwarinpa Man steals pot of rice on fire at graveyard over prostitution Kwali village

The police in Gwarinpa have arrested 15 women suspected to be commercial sex workers near a graveyard opposite War College Estate, Gwarinpa.

The police also arrested five men who had intent to patronise the commercial sex workers.

City News gathered that some of the men were arrested with the girls in a shanty near the graveyard.

Police sources said the residents of the estate had reported at the police station that the commercial sex workers usually constitute public nuisance between 8:00p.m. and 10:00p.m.

The Gwarinpa Divisional Police Officer, CSP Nuruddeen Sabo, said the police raided the area at about 9:00p.m. on Tuesday and arrested 15 prostitutes and five men with intent to have sexual intercourse with the women.

“The way they were dressed and paraded themselves and waiting by the road side raised a lot of suspicion. The men were there to negotiate and some of them were arrested inside the batcher with intent to committing sex,” he said.

He said some of the girls used a shanty close to the graveyard opposite War College to attend to their customers.

“We went and raided the place and we arrested about 20 people, 15 women and five men. There are batchers close to the graveyard where they have sexual intercourse.

“We are interrogating them and we will charge them to court for nuisance,” he added. A yet to be identified person was alleged to have stolen a pot of rice on fire at KwananMada village in Kwali Area Council.

A resident of the community, Ezekiel Musa, said the incident happened on Tuesday morning after a house wife, who he gave her name as Comfort, went to the stream to fetch water.

He said the woman was cooking the rice in order to take it to her husband who was working on the farm.

He said she went to the stream to fetch water and when she returned, she discovered the pot of rice had disappeared.

He said some neighbours had also gone to their farms when the incident happened.

When contacted, the Kwali Divisional Police Crime Officer (DCO), Samuel Adamu, said he was not aware of such incident.