Sex hawker bags three-month jail over re-arraignment

Chief Magistrate A. O. Awogboro of the Tinubu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Monday sentenced a sex worker, Ene Emmanuel, to three months imprisonment with hard labour for re-appearing before the court.

Awogboro said she took the decision after the accused had appeared before her, bearing a different name and committing the same offence.

Emmanuel, 21, was facing a one-count charge of engaging in sex hawking.

Earlier, the Prosecutor, Chidi Okoye, told the court that the accused committed the offence at about 2am on November 8 on Victoria Island.

“On the previous arraignment, the accused had presented herself as ‘Josephine Ogu’ which was a false name,”  Okoye said.

Sentencing Emmanuel, Awogboro said, “I sentence the accused to three months imprisonment with hard labour for the crime committed.”