How 4 varsity female students lured into prostitution in Delta

Unease as about for university female students were reportedly lured into prostitution by one Madam Success in Delta state.

Congress gathered that the four female students (names withheld) were lured from Akwa Ibom to Agbor in Delta State after they were deceived of a job offers in a beer parlour but were allegedly put in a brothel and made to sleep with at least five men a day.

The female students who are between the age brackets of 13 and 15 years, were rescued by the Commissioner for Women and Children’s Welfare in Anambra State, Mrs Ify Obinabo, in Onitsha, where their trafficker was also arrested.

Speaking to newsmen, Chidimma Ikeanyionwu, Media Assistant to Obinabo, said the commissioner, working with men of the police force, stormed a park in Onitsha on a tip-off and rescued the girls while also arresting the trafficker as they were boarding a bus to Delta State.

Ikeanyionwu, in a press statement, said Madam Success was on Friday arraigned before the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Magistrate Court in Awka, where she was denied bail and also remanded.

The female students, while narrating their experiences, said: “Auntie Success told us that she has a job opportunity for us in Agbor, Delta State, where we will be selling drinks in a beer parlour, but on getting there, we discovered that it was prostitution work they brought us to do.

“The men pay the sum of N1,000 or N2,000 directly to our madam, who only gives us N400 every day for feeding. The direct payment to Madam Success made it difficult for us to have any cash at hand.

“These dresses (skimpy clothes) were bought for us from the proceeds which people pay to our madam, that was what she told us.”

The students narrated that they had made several attempts to escape but were always caught and punished severely.

“After the punishment, we were taken to a herbalist who forced us to take an oath that we would never run away or we would die.”

According to the girls, it was in their quest to secure their school fees that they got lured into the act.