Female prostitution merchant arrested in Delta

A female prostitution merchant known for luring University students into prostitution has been arrested and cooling off in the police station.

Identified as Madam Success, she was arrested and charged before the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Magistrate Court in Awka, where she was denied bail and also remanded.
She was said to have lured four university students into prostitution from Akwa Ibom State after she promised to provide employment for them.

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She told the girls who are between ages 13 to 15 years that there was job offer for them in Delta State, where they would have ended up in a brothel and were made to sleep with men for five times a day.
Though, the victims were rescued by the Anambra State Commissioner for Women and Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo, the trafficker was arrested and detained.

The media assistant to Obinabo, Chidimma Ikeanyionwu, confirmed to journalists that the commissioner, working with men of the Nigeria Police, stormed a motor park in Onitsha on a tip-off, and rescued the girls while also arrested the trafficker in the process of their boarding a bus to Delta State.
Ikeanyionwu, in a press statement, disclosed that 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 to newsmen, stated that the woman socialite had promised them employment offers.

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“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 students said.

They spoke further, “The men pay the sum of N1,000 or N2,000 directly to our madam, who only give 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.”
The girls who claimed that it was in their quest to secure their school fees that they got lured into the act maintained that they had made several unsuccessful 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,” they narrated.

The Police Public Relations Officer for Delta State Command, DSP Bright Edafe, could not be reached for comments on the incident as of the time of filing this report.

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