Nigeria's Campus Girls Big-Time Prostitutes
IT is a thing of joy to see parents feeling happy that their daughters are in various institutions of higher learning scattered all over our country, acquiring knowledge that will shape their future and make them great women in time to come. And naturally, parents should have no cause to doubt the good behaviour of their daughters, especially when it comes to issue of chastity, if that child was properly brought up to fear God, respect other people and to see her body as a temple of God that should not be defiled no matter the pressure.
However, if the investigations we carried out for some weeks in selected cities on campus prostitution, is to be used as yard stick, then parents, including the wealthy among us should have a rethink as to where their precious daughter, so calm, innocent looking and highly respectable is at this moment, because prostitution on our campuses have gone beyond the level of past time, it is now a highly organized and digitalized business not only practiced by the female students, but also by some boys who act as pimps to the female students and sometimes themselves service the pervert needs of wealthy homosexuals.
In fact, it was the return to civil rule with all the glamour and paraphernalia attached to politics that actually made our female undergraduates to embrace prostitution. At that time, it was practiced with some caution because the girls were somehow afraid not to be noticed that they were into such shameful act, not approved at all by the society.
So the mode of operation was as much as possible secretive and somehow confidential. What usually happened then was that any city harbouring higher institutions where politicians are having their convention or any other meeting was usually a target. Before the politicians arrived, their contact who could be a girl or boy will take briefings on the number of student hawkers required, the statistics of the type of girl each politician wanted and the services the girls are expected to render, which actually determined the price.
It is important to note here that because of the agreement to protect some sources who spoke to us on condition of anonymity, we are going to use imaginary names in some cases in order not to breach agreement and to protect our sources, which is very important to us.
The above account by an operator of this campus prostitution ring is just one of the information we gathered in the cause of our investigations. In the above scenario, the girls did not move outside their campus arena because their clients came to town for one meeting or the other and decided to go wild on the laps of these bad female students who decided to turn themselves into sex tools, just for money. But we are talking of a situation where female students in Enugu, Port Harcourt, Aba, Lagos, Calabar, Warri, Ibadan, and Abeokuta among others, will invade Abuja, a journey of over five hours at the least, abandoning their studies for weeks just to hawk their bodies to willing men for money.
On the other hand, these merchants of flesh in Abuja who are afraid to be seen within their base by people who know them normally storm Lagos, Port Harcourt, and Owerri etc, to engage in this notorious trade mostly practiced at night.
For parents who might want to see if their daughters are involved in this shameful act but do not know the possible places to visit, we shall expose some of these hide- outs for them to know. In Abuja, our capital city, these bad girls parade their trades in all night clubs scattered in and around the city, with the most popular being Grand Mirage Night Club in Port Harcourt Crescent, off the notorious Gimbiya Street, where the Apo six traders were extra judicially killed.
Apart from these girls invading the clubs, they also rent rooms in hotels where about five of them could secretly turn to brothels as they give chance to each other if a client shows up to ease tension with any of them. Some of them in the satellite towns like Kubwa, Nyanya, Lugbe, Kuje, Gwagwalada, Karu, Gwarinpa and Maraba among others do rent rooms in some already established brothels from where they hit the clubs in towns at night, where they expect to make more money from rich guys who come to enjoy themselves in clubs.
In Port Harcourt, there are also night clubs and relaxation points all over the garden city where these girls invade at night to catch fun and make money. But the most popular and patronized is a place called Ojuelegba, in front of Presidential Hotel directly under the fly-over.
In Lagos these bad spots are uncountable as entertainment arena, including nude clubs where some of these girls who have graduated to masters in this flesh trade dance naked to please men for monetary compensation. The areas highly visited by fun seekers are Allen Avenue and Toyin Street in Ikeja, the long Opebi Road leading to Sheraton Hotel where they line up, waiting for interested partners to carry them and Ojuelegba area, mostly along Ayilara Street. Even along the beaches in Lagos, Bar Beach, Takwa Bay, Eleko Beach Kuramo Beach, all in Lagos Island, these fun seekers and their accomplices gather at night to enjoy.
In fact, when we visited one of the beaches, some who could no longer control their urge and passion were having fun right inside the client's car with some also cooling off inside rented huts barely covered with palm fronts which enables those with eagle eyes to see the game going on inside, capped with all the distractive sexy noises in terms of moans and groans.
In Owerri, the dimly lighted stretch which leads to the popular Concord and All Seasons Hotels are the area of concentration for these girls, including the frontages of some hotels whose management are not strict in monitoring the presence of these girls. And in Enugu, the Polo Park is where it happens as we accosted some students from some of the higher institutions there who came to solicit for bed mates just for money. Also off the Ogui Road where the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium is located is an open area where canopies were used to provide shelter for those who came around to drink and seek sex partners for the night.
She described professional students as those girls who never gained admission into schools but used money to buy off bed spaces from bonafide students from where they engage in commercial sex, sometimes claiming before their clients that they are students. According to her, "These professional students could stay years on campus doing their trade and because men prefer to go to bed with students than engaging professional dirty local harlots, these girls could do anything including forging identity cards just to have the status of studentship conferred on them in order to improve their rating before men. However, that does not rule out the fact that some of us are real students."
Asked if her parents knew of her escapades, she thundered, "Brother, you want to kill me, if they know Iam finished. I came into this dirty deal due to peer pressure and greed. I pray that until God helps me to quit this job, I shall not see someone who knew me. I once saw a man from my town talking to my girl friend and I had to run the race of my life before he sets his eyes on me."
Another student, Chioma, (not real name), told us that she entered into this trade because according to her she is fatherless. "I lost my dad when I finished my Senior School Certificate Examinations and when I gained admission into the university, my mother also has five of my siblings to carter for.
Initially, I was managing with what she was able to give me from her small business until I could no longer bother her with my wants. One of my friends talked me into commercial sex and painfully, I took it as the last option. My mother is not aware of what Iam doing to even assist her train my junior ones as I lied to her that I do some menial jobs on campus to help her. I only ask God for forgiveness and hope that nothing happens to me before I graduate next year."
Yet another victim called Gift was full of what appeared like remorse during our interaction. As she stated, "I really don't think that I embraced prostitution because of lack as my parents could afford my basic needs and even beyond.
Bose, said that she is afraid of mistakenly contracting sexually transmitted diseases or even the dreaded Human Immuno Virus,(HIV), which causes the Acquired Immuned Deficiency Syndrome(AIDS), getting pregnant by mistake, or being utilized by ritualists for diabolic purposes. Asked if she plays the game flesh to flesh, she screamed, "Do you want to kill me? I insist on condom, but the fact is that some rough guys can burst the condom during the game, especially if one became very dry and in split seconds the guy could lose control and discharge inside my private part during condom burst, thereby putting me at risks.
Again, one prays not to fall into the hands of bad men who use girls for rituals." As she narrated in fear, there was one of them called Angel who was approached at the Rita Lori Night Club by a client who told the girl that though he was interested in having short- time which means a quick casual sex, he could not go back to his hotel room for the fun and offered to have fun with the girl at a nearby botanical garden for N10, 000. Being good money for just some minutes fun, Angel agreed and hopped into the wealthy man's jeep.
After having fun with her, two men emerged from the bush and assisted the man to kill Angel. Her private part, tongue, eyes, breasts, fingers and toes were removed. However, as the criminals were going back to the jeep, some vigilant police men arrested them only to discover the human parts of the late Angel. Bose confessed that she almost quit the job out of fear but when she overcame the shock after some days, she started coming again to seek her income but now with more caution.
The man was rushed to the clinic, while the girl in question who claimed to be a student from a university in Lagos was handed over to the police. Men who engage these girls should never leave their drinks or food to go and urinate while any call- girl is with them because in some cases, some of the victims don't live to tell their story.
However, some hard lecturers who know that we do make some money from our outings may demand money in order to pass us or both money and our body. This settlement with our body or cash in order to pass our papers is called sorting. Whichever way, the end justifies the means and the most important thing is to pass the examination, no matter what one offered in exchange."
Relevant LinksWe were shocked to discover that the level of monitoring parents give to their daughters is highly disappointing. For some parents to accept that they have never visited their daughters in school for once is a very big challenge. Mrs. Oluwatoyin Adeola, whose daughter is in one of the schools in the South-East admitted that she has never visited her ward at school, though she is billed to graduate next session. Even another parent Mrs. Stella Anika when our topic was introduced to her screamed, "God forbid, my daughter is in school, she cannot be on the streets." But reminded that the girls we met were born by women like her, she admitted that she has actually not done well by not knowing where her daughter is periodically and promised that though her daughter cannot misbehave, "You have challenged me as a parent and I have to be more thorough."
"Our gospel has been watered down that we have lost some values. What kind of girls do you think will come out from a church where the wearing of clothes which exposes the seductive parts of females is not questioned, or what kind of behaviour would a girl whose mother does not question how she got money to update her wardrobe as if she is a worker, whereas she is still a student."
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