I Did Not Sponsor Bill On Prostitution ----Says Deputy Senate President

Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu insisted at the weekend that he did not at any time introduce any bill on the floor of the Senate seeking to legalize prostitution in Nigeria.

He made the clarification when the management and students of Baze University, Abuja paid him a courtesy call at the National Assembly Complex today.

Deputy President of the Senate who regretted that his contributions to a motion on Human Trafficking have been taken out of context, culminating in various media reports that he was sponsoring a bill to legalise prostitution in the country, said human trafficking and prostitution remained grievous crimes against humanity and debased those that indulge in them.

"When you are talking about human trafficking, you are talking about children who are sold to go and serve as wards or housemaids and women who are taken outside the country against their will or cajoled to go and prostitute for the gain of those who are taking them, while there are also others who are taken from one part of the country to another and forced into prostitution", Ekweremadu said, advising those who engage in such trade to have a rethink.

Senator Ike Ekweremadu in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media Uche Anichukwu has however advised the students to shun all acts of immorality and be wary of human traffickers who lure young women into their early graves, lamented that in the course of prostitution, people get kidnapped, murdered and suffer all kinds of humiliation.