At the weekend about four
teenagers recounted how they sleep with more than 20 men daily and how their
‘Madam’ collects the money in Calabar brothel, Vegas Flex.
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.
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.
Vanguard
Do this women have a heart, evil
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