Clergyman Blames Rising Prostitution On Unemployment

A Port Harcourt-based Pastor, Pioneer Omereji, has blamed the worsening spate of prostitution in the country on unemployment.
Pastor Omereji, who made the remarks while speaking with The Tide in Port Harcourt on Monday, noted that the soaring unemployment was affecting a preponderance of the youths.
He said the Nigerian youths were finding it very difficult to make ends meet.
Pastor Omereji explained that while the young men were increasingly getting involved in violent crimes, young ladies were involved in prostitution.
He said that churches were much to take the ladies out of the brothels and streets but it was not enough because the illicit business had over time.
He said at various times the Omega Power Ministry had rehabilitated prostitutes and given vocation but the efforts had not been complemented by government.
The clergyman noted that for more than seven years most state government had not given employment to the youths.
“Every year graduates are churned out from our universities and institutions of higher learning yet after the one year national service they are allowed to roam the streets in search of elusive jobs. What do we expect? Most times we notice that morality is ebbing but come to you can’t preach morality to a starving person”, he stated
Besides, the growing number of brothels across the country and others that stand at Street corners, the online booking of whores he said had made it easier.
Pastor Omereji pointed out that government needed to do more by creating jobs for growing population of the country.
He banditry, cultism, unknown gunmen and sundry others were a testament of the lack vocation.
The pastor stated that there was a great need for young people to engage in meaningful and self-sustaining vocations and courses rather than employment based ones given the state of the Nigerian economy.
He warned that despite the state of the nation’s economy crime ought to be an alternative to Christians.
“I appreciate the fact that things are rough for the average Nigerian but engagement in crime cannot be a useful alternative to a Christian.
He urged all to do their beat so that prostitution could be reduced to the barest minimum”, he noted.
Pastor Omereji also called on corporate bodies operating in different states to help take women off the streets.
He warned that prostitution was facilitating the spread of Human Immuno Virus as well as sundry other veneral diseases.

By: Chidi Enyie