NSCDC parades 34 minors over alleged illicit dance in Gombe
Gombe State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Gombe State Command has paraded no fewer than 20 girls, 14 boys including minors involved in illicit dance entertainment popularly known as Gidan lokachi or Gidan gala.
Addressing journalists on Tuesday at the state command, Commandant Waziri Goni said they posed serious security breach, adding that the command had so far closed over 10 of such dance houses across the state.
He revealed that aside been involved in illicit dance, the entertainment house served as avenue for young girls to practice prostitution, stressing that many of them came from neighbouring states.
Goni said, ” They call the place gidan gala but actually that the end of the day because they have their boy friends they will go with them. 95 percent of them are teenagers between 17 years, hardly will you find 20 to 22 years and the place has been existing over a long time. For the owners they registered the place for trading and merchandise and now they operate as hotel and play ground.”
The Commandant disclosed that some of them where married for about one week before jettisoning their marital vows to come into Gombe State.
He added, “They are from Adamawa, Borno, Plateau, Taraba, most of them are from the North-East, just one or two are from Kaduna and Jos. If we don’t deal with this issue it will jeopardise and create problem for the entire population.
“It a serious threat these are things that gives rise to kidnapping, robbery, cultism. Some are being lured and killed, others hide in the pretext of the play to commit crime.”
While calling on parents to monitor the activities of their children, “this will bring bad image to their family, some of the parents know that their children were involved in such things at least about two of them. We have to take this ones to court,” Goni added.
On his part, manager of Gidan lokachi Danladi Mohammed, denied of any wrong doing, adding that participants were duly screened before being allowed in.
Mohammed said, “They used to come themselves, if they are not married you will be allowed to perform we don’t accept minors.”
