By Gracia Obi
A 13-year-old Junior Secondary School (JSS3) pupil (names withheld) has confessed that an average of eight men slept with her daily in a hotel in a Suleja after she was forced into prostitution.
The daughter of a deceased civil servant, who hailed from Maiduguri in Borno state, said she was lured into prostitution by a woman who used to sell foodstuff to her mother at Dei-Dei market in the Federal Capita Territory (FCT).
However, nemesis caught up with Saudat, from Kastina state, when the local vigilantes got to know that the missing 13-year-old girl was one of the prostitutes their counterparts in Maje arrested earlier.
She was nabbed with five of her accomplices. The discovery later led to the arrest of Saudat whom the local vigilante said has no fixed address. She was nabbed with five of her accomplice.
Narrating her ordeal, the little girl said: “I was coming from home to Suleja at Kwanta where my friends sells food and I ran into a woman, sister Saudat, who normally sold foodstuff to my mother when she was alive and she told me to follow her. I obeyed because I know her.
“She then took me into a motorbike and we arrived at a hotel in Suleja where she introduced me to two men called Azeez Usman, and Mohammed Aliyu. And immediately she gave me a key to a room which was dirty and smelling and she put a wig on my head, which she said was to make me look older.
“On my first day at the hotel, Alhaji Ibrahim deflowered me and before he did it struggled with him but he overpowered me. I went through hell. After having sex with him, so much blood was coming out of my private part and I quickly came out of the room to call Aunty Saudat and she went out and brought a white handkerchief which she used in cleaning the blood.”
Continuing, she said: “Eight men slept with me every day. They paid me N800 each and those who slept with me over night paid N1, 500 each. After the men had slept with me, Aunty Saudat would give me Ampiclox to swallow. I begged her to let me go home that I was too small for this, but she would instead beat me. Now I feel pains in my private part any time I urinate.”
As at the time of filing in this report, the suspects were still being detained at the office of the local vigilantes.
