How banks promote prostitution in Nigeria - Reps

The House of Representatives has been told that banks promote prostitution in the country by setting unrealistic targets for their female marketers.

Hon. Segun Alexander Adekola, while sponsoring a motion entitled, “Urgent Need to Curb Unwholesome Practices of Banks in Nigeria,” on Tuesday said that female marketers are usually send to solicit for huge deposits for the banks and those who fail to meet the largely unrealistic targets are quickly dismissed.

His words ;
“A critical assessment of the targets being given to these employees to meet, show them to be unrealistic, unreasonable, ordinarily unattainable and irrational.

“But these banks resort to unethical means to ensure that these targets are met by either explicitly or impliedly encouraging their staff, especially the female ones to engage in illicit behaviour.”

In her support for the motion, Hon Rita Orji noted that female bankers are known to have been sacked through text messages for failing to meet such unrealistic deposit targets.

Majority Leader, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, recalled that his earlier attempt to stop the practice with his Corporate Prostitution Bill  in the Sixth Assembly, was frustrated by some bankers when it got to the stage of public hearing.

“Marriages have been wrecked and homes destroyed because of this practice and I am sure that none of us here will allow our daughters to be involved in this,” he said.

Calling for a voice vote on the motion, House Speaker, Hon Yakubu Dogara appealed to bank managements in the country to desist from the practice of sending young women to solicit for million naira deposits.