How I was turned into sex slave in Ogun – 16-year-old girl narrates sad experience

A 16-year-old girl has narrated how she was promised salesgirl job before she left her hometown in Cross River state but she was turned into sex slave when she arrived Ogun state.

Abigail (pseudonym), who is being used as a prostitute by her boss, Madam Nelly at Kolab Hotel along Ayetoro Road, Ogun State opened up on her story during an investigative report with The PUNCH.

Abigail was said to have gone out with ‘a customer’ around 2pm on Wednesday, April 28, when the reporter visited Kolab Hotel along Ayetoro Road, Ogun State and wouldn’t return until ‘DB.’

By the acronym, a skimpily-dressed young woman who approached the reporter meant 16-year-old Abigail was on an all-night romp affair with a client and would not come back until daybreak of the following day.

The PUNCH reporter had got a lead that underage girls are being forced into prostitution at a bungalow on the hotel premises by a woman identified simply as Madam Nelly and that some of them including Abigail yearned for freedom.

“I was around that day,” Abigail said during an encounter with The PUNCH on Tuesday. “I was locked inside the room because policemen were patrolling. Madam Nelly doesn’t allow me and other young girls to go out. Men come to ‘sleep with’ us inside our rooms,” she mumbled.

The reporter posed as a client to have access to Abigail inside a dingy room she was kept. Slim and light-complexioned, her face was etched with frustration as this correspondent entered the small apartment partitioned with a piece of wood raised at mid-level.

She sluggishly began to pack items on the bare floor and lay the bed, thinking she was in for another romp. “You can have your seat,” she intoned, struggling to breathe.

After being told that the mission was not amorous, Abigail opened up on the excruciating experience she has been subjected to since she arrived at the hotel about six months ago.

She said, “One Aunty Bright brought me and my cousin here from Calabar. She told me I would be helping Madam Nelly to sell food and that after some months, the woman would give me money so that I can go back to the village to continue my school. She didn’t tell me the amount the woman would give me. I noticed that Madam Nelly gave her money before she left but I don’t know the amount.

“I dropped out at SS 1 because my father didn’t pay my school fees. He threw out my luggage and told me not to come to his house again. I don’t know my offence. He had two wives, including my mother who died about two years ago.”