FOUR Teenage girls, who were tricked into prostitution in a
notorious Calabar brothel, Vegas Flex, weekend recounted how they sleep with
more than 20 men daily and how their ‘Madam’ collects the money. The girls,
Felicia Nzuworgar, 17; Patience Williams, 18; Angela Benjamin, 17 and Charity Nkwogor
all from Okun Local Government Area of Benue state said Abigail Aliyu whom they
call “Chair Lady” took them from their homes....
in Benue State in January this
year on the pretext that she was taking them to Lagos to work as sales girls in
her drinking spot, but ended up as sex workers in the brothel located at 26
Bedwell Street, Calabar. One of the girls, Felicia, told Vanguard, “the woman
told me that she has a beer parlour in Lagos and wanted me to work as sales
girl there, but when we got here she gave me boxer shorts to wear and when I
asked her where the drinking parlour is for me to start working, she said I
should hustle like other girls by sleeping with men and when I refused she beat
me up.” The girls, with different cane marks on their bodies, said the lady
beat them to submission, adding that when they started it was very painful as
they were not used to sleeping with such large number of men daily.
Patience
recounting her experience said “Every day we sleep with over twenty men for
N500.00 each and because we are young, men do line up to have us. At about 12
midnight, ‘Chair Lady’ will come in and collect the money, because she counts
the condoms she gives to us, if you do not give her all the money she will beat
you mercilessly. The girls said Abigail
and the men working for her normally, searched their room and their bodies at
the close of each day to ensure they had not hidden any money and beaten if any
money was found on them. They said Abigail on arrival in Calabar collected
their phones and did not allow any of them to step outside the brothel for fear
that they might run away. They said when Angela and Charity attempted to escape
that they were beaten to a state of unconsciousness by the woman and some of
her male friends. Angela said “ When I tried running away, she brought a
soldier and a policeman, who are her boyfriends, and they beat me up and poured
tear gas in my eyes. I later fell sick because of that beating for many days”.
On why they followed the woman without letting their parents know, they said
once the woman touched them on the shoulders they became confused and went with
her. “ I was walking in our market in Okun Local Government Area when she
greeted me and touched me on the shoulder and that was how I followed her and
we entered vehicle to Enugu to the house of a juju man, who prepared a medicine
(concoction) for us to drink which she said was to protect us from sickness,
but when we got to Calabar, she said if we run away the medicine the man gave
us will make our private part to rot,” Charity narrated. But the Ebonyi State
born, “Chair Lady” , Abigail Aliyu , said her arrest by operatives of the Anti
Human Trafficking operatives of the Cross River State Police Command was due to
jealousy, adding that she was not the one that brought the girls to Calabar. Mr
John Eluu, Cross River State Police Public Relations Officer, said the woman
will soon be charged to court after investigation and warned youths to be
cautious and not go with anyone who promises them jobs in Lagos or any other
town without any proof.
source: vanguard
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