Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Ohaneye, has announced that the Federal Government would no longer permit underaged girls to be lodged in hotels across the nation.
Gatekeepers News reports that she said this was part of the precautionary measures to put an end to human trafficking in the country.
Uju revealed this during the weekend while speaking at the Graduation and Grant Presentation of financial assistance to youth who participated in Technical, Vocational, and Entrepreneurship Education.
The entrepreneurship programme was organized by the Office of the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Technical Education, Abiola Arogundade.
Ugu’s remarks came shortly after a video of Nigerian girls who were between the age of 15-16 years who were trafficked to Ghana for prostitution trended online.
Also, Ugu said her Ministry aims to stop premature deaths of Nigerians as hospitals would no longer be allowed to reject emergency patients.
She said “Women have been suffering in this country. Today, we have talked about allowing the poor to breathe in this country.”
“Meanwhile I am sure you saw the video circulating about our girls taken to Ghana. Did you see it? Very good. Action will start on Monday. You will hear about our action first thing on Monday morning. That is the first I am going to approach and see what we can do about it.”
“Nigeria must be better. From 20th (June), we have directed hotels to put a sign outside from the Ministry of Women. No lodging of underage girls. (Otherwise) what happened in Niger State will be an understatement to what will happen in the FCT and I mean it. No more lodging of underage girls and no more bullying in schools.”
“And our hospitals will also put a sign of ‘No more rejection of emergency patients.’ These are some of the major issues we have in this country.”
