Anambra State government through the Operation Clean And Healthy Anambra, OCHA
Brigade’s Yuletide 24/7 taskforce led by the Managing Director of the agency, Comrade Celestine Anere has raided a brothel which is located on the popular Club Road in Awka.
the state government rescued 24 girls being trafficked for prostitution whose ages range from 13 to 27 at the brothel
The victims narrated to the press how they were forced into the work by the manager of the brothel and were locked inside deferent rooms. They appreciated the state government for setting them free.
In a related development, the OCHA brigade taskforce also raided underground shanties on the same road where suspected hoodlums use as command centre to trafficked illicit drugs and for robberies.
Ocha Brigade during the raid also uncovered locally made weapons, speaking comrade Anere expressed determination of the command to sanitize the state of all sort of criminally minded individuals that are bent on making the state ungovernable
He assured OCHA Brigade being an official task force of the State government is always ready to maintain law and order in the state and pointed out that the sealed brothel will remain sealed until investigations are completed