Twenty-four
Hours Bar which also operates a brothel in Rumukurushi, Port Harcourt was raided
and closed down by the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in
Persons (NAPTIP)
This was
after a couple discovered that their 16-year-old daughter was working as a
prostitute there.
The bar is
known to harbour underage sex workers.
Most young
girls who were taken from their parents by family relatives or friends in the
pretence of going to learn a trade, where found working as sex workers for a
price ranging from ₦1000 to ₦2000 per customer.
It was later
found out that the under-aged girls were bought over by matured prostitutes
from the agents who supplied them.
On arrival,
the under-aged girls are given a room in the hotel by their new owners who are
matured and senior prostitutes and the under-aged girls are also reportedly given
a target to remit ₦15,000 daily to their “madams” who are the senior and
matured prostitutes in the bar.
At the end of
one year of service to the madam, the under-aged girls are settled by their
madam with items such as a bag of rice, an android phone, a carton of tomatoes,
and cash of ₦100, 000 to take back home.
The brothel
has now been closed by NAPTIP with a warning sign “Closed by NAPTIP keep Off”
written on the fence and gate.
Although it
was not clear at the time of filing the report if arrests were made.
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