“They know we are vulnerable, and they don’t treat us as human beings,” said the beautician. “All this has to end. They should be punished for what they’ve done to us.”
“Around 9:30 pm, or 10:00 pm, I was walking back home,” she said. “The police arrested me in the street, accusing me of ‘being out late’.” The officers demanded she pay 4,000 naira but she did not have the cash.
They were arrested for prostitution, a charge many furiously denied. The sweeping police crackdown in the federal capital has sparked outrage in the news and on social media in Africa’s most populous nation.
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