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How four Benue girls were turned to prostitutes in Calabar

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Four schoolgirls from Benue State have recounte how they were forcefully converted into sex workers by a business woman in Calabar.

The schoolgirls, Charity Nkwogor, Felicia Nzuworgar, Angela Benjamin amd Patience Williams all between 17 and 18 years old, said were forced into prostitution by one Chairlady, woman who owned a brothel in Calabar business area.

Chairlady, the traffiker

Chairlady, the traffiker


The girls said to all be from Okun and Vandeikya local government areas of Benue state, were said to have been taken from their homes in January to work as sales girls in a supposed drinking spot in Lagos, but they narrated how Abigail, the woman they referred to as Chairlady, ended up using them as sex workers.

The girls claimed that they were spiritually controlled by the woman to follow her to her brothel.

Felicia said, “I was selling oranges in our market in Okun when she tapped me on the shoulder and I turned thinking she wanted to buy oranges but she told me she had a business in Lagos and wanted me to follow her. I did not know what came over me. I just followed her without even telling my parents and friends where I was going.”

Another victim Patience, an SS2 student, recounted that she was plaiting a friend’s hair in front of her granny’s house, where she lived, when a motorcycle rider, Mike, in the neighbourhood informed her that someone from Lagos would like to employ her to work in a beer parlour.

Patience said she didn’t want the job but the events that happened after was beyond her comprehension.

“I told Mike that I was still in school and could not go with the lady and that she should look for someone else,” she said.

“But instead of looking for somebody else, Mike went and brought the lady and when she looked into my eyes, I simply went inside and packed my clothes and followed her without waiting for my grandmother who went out to come back.”

Despite the claims and confessions of the schoolgirls, Chairlady, also known as Abigail, the alleged trafficker, denied ever bringing the girls to Calabar for prostitution business. She insisted that she was arrested by operatives from anti-human trafficking unit of the Cross River state police command out of jealousy.

However, the police spokesperson in Cross River, John Eluu, confirmed that the suspected human trafficker has now been charged to court on allegations of kidnap and for engaging in prostitution.

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