Report: Sex slave camp in Lagos where underage girls are recruited into prostitution

by Rachel Ogbu

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A reporter has gone under cover to expose the lifestyle of underage sex workers in Lagos.

Nation newspaper recently reported that at a brothel located close to Sawmill Bus-stop in Gbagada, teenage girls mostly from poor parental backgrounds and broken homes were recruited to deliver sexual services to older men.

At the end of each session the girls had to give all the money they made to a woman designated as her aunty who is an older prostitute and gives the girl a sum she deems sufficient to cater for her basic needs.

One of the girls identified as 15-year-old Martha from Delta State opened up about her ordeal.

“I was in JSS3 at the time, and I was too young to understand anything. So, when I became pregnant, I told my boyfriend about it, but he denied it and ran away. That was how I stopped going to school. After about two years, I came to Lagos to hustle. One aunty then introduced me to this business,” she said.

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Martha also works as an apprentice hairdresser, hoping to settle down into hairdressing business someday. But for now, she is still under contract to serve her aunty for 11 more months, during which she must hand over her entire earnings.

“My aunty is very nice. She gives me money, depending on how much I make in a day. I am from Delta State, and I am learning to become a hairdresser. I will leave next year after my service. After that, I will open a shop and become a businesswoman.”

“I am very brave,” said Martha, beating her chest as she spoke. “I can take on as many men as are available at a time.”

Although sounding very confident, she also spoke about exposure to the danger of being defrauded or physically assaulted by the men that patronise her. According to reports, a few days earlier, she lost her cell phone, which she said she bought for N32, 000, to a client from whom she had only reaped N2,000.

“The man stole my phone after paying me N2, 000. I called the number and he picked it, but claimed that the phone belonged to him.”

Asked if she was not afraid of contracting HIV/AIDS, she said she had received enough lessons on how to protect herself against sexually transmitted diseases and other dangers that come with her trade. She said apart from insisting that her clients must wear condom, she had been taught not to get carried away when entertaining them, The Nation reports.

“The first thing they taught us was that men are cunning, and that we should be very careful with them. We also go for medical check-ups regularly. But one thing is that we don’t sleep with men without condoms,” she said.

Martha is not alone in this modern day slavery. The heart wrench story continues with her soft-spoken colleague, Janet, an indigene of Edo State. At 17, she told a pathetic story of the events that led her into prostitution, saying that unlike Martha, she plans to go back to school.

Read the rest of the compelling story on The Nation.

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