Sanitation officials in prostitutes nest in Ondo State.

Two Security officials attached to the Ondo State Environmental Task Force for the monthly sanitation exercise yesterday received the beating of their lives when prostitutes from a brothel in the capital city, Akure, descended on them. The State Commissioner for Environment in the state, Barrister Sola Ebiseni has ordered the seal off of the hotel. The two security officials, who sustained various degrees of injuries, were on duty to monitor the monthly exercise when the prostitutes, who failed to observe the monthly exercise, ordered them out of their premises. Ebiseeni, who led the task force team, had set out as early as 8am to ensure strict compliance with the monthly environmental exercise. The commissioner and his team visited some towns and villages while some arrests were made while pleading with the people to comply with the environmental law. The monitoring exercise however, turned sour when the team got to Inner Circle Hotel at Oke padi off Lao street in Akure, the state capital, when they met the prostitutes and their customers drinking and dancing. The task force called on the manager of the brothel to call the prostitutes and their customers to order by observing the sanitation exercise but the prostitutes and their customers descended on the two officials saying the officials are disturbing them. One of the officials while speaking with our correspondent said some of the people around the compound, who were ready to comply with their order, were prevented by the prôstitutes. The official said further that the prostitutes started to beat them when they tried to arrest them and their customers and the Civil Defence officials and one of the security personnel attached to the task force were equally beaten mercilessly by the prostitutes and their clients. A female Civil Defence officer had her uniform torn into shreds by the irate women of easy virtue and it took the intervention of additional security men comprising of policemen, State Security Service official and Civil Defence to bring the situation under control. When the commissioner visited the scene, he ordered the hotel premises to be sealed off and asked the prostitutes and their clients to be arrested and taken to police station for interrogation. He said the offenders aside from facing environmental court would also be prosecuted for assault on government officials Speaking at the end of this month’s edition of the environmental exercise, Ebiseeni said 22 persons caught violating environmental law were arrested and taken to court immediately.