Lagos State Police command has arrested a
33-year-old Victor Obano an hotelier for
allegedly compelling young girls to work as
prostitutes in his hotel. The suspect, it was
learnt travels to places like Calabar, Akwa-
Ibom, Edo State and some other states to
lure young girls into the ‘dirty’ job
It was revealed that Obano modus
operandi promises his target a lucrative job.
However, on arrival in Lagos, the girls are
forced into prostitution.
Detectives, who stormed the brothel at Ijegun
outskirts of Lagos, arrested some of the
prostitutes.
The Lagos State police boss, Fatai Owoseni
revealed that what triggered police
intervention was that the suspect had seized
the phone of the victim for refusing to work
for him as a prostitute.
According to the police boss, the suspect
was arrested when the aunty of one of the
victims lodged a complaint at the State
Criminal Investigation Department (SCID),
Panti, Yaba that her younger sister’s phone
was seized by her master for refusing to
work as a prostitute in his brothel. Owoseni
however, urged parents and guardians to be
wary of those who come to them to assist
their girl child secure job in Lagos because
of the economic situation in the country to
stop such act as it comes with it a terrible
result.
Obano told The Guardian that it was the
victim who persuaded him to bring her to
Lagos to work as a harlot.
The suspect said:
“I met the lady three months ago,
when I travelled to Calabar for a
friend’s burial, through a friend who
told me she had problem taking care
of her two children. She begged me to
bring her to Lagos, so that she could
work and take care of them. But
before bringing her, I went to see her
father who also consented to her
coming with me.”
“Before we left Calabar for Lagos, I
had told her what she would be doing
when we get to Lagos and she agreed.
The first money she made, she sent it
back home for the upkeep of her
children, but suddenly she was not
concentrating on the hustling
anymore, she started going out with
some boys in my area which annoyed
me and I seized her phone.”
He added:
“I was in my hotel on Wednesday
when policemen came and arrested me
for trafficking girls and also forcing
them into prostitution. Some of the
ladies in my hotel came through their
friends to work; nobody is forcing
them into what they are doing.”
“They pay N2, 500 for each room they
used, what I am after is my money.
Whenever the girls come, I always
provide them accommodation, I don’t
chase them away.” One of the
harlots, one Grace who was arrested
by the police alongside Obano noted
that she knew nothing about the case.
The victim said:
“ I only came outside to urinate when
policemen who came to raid the hotel
arrested me. What I was able to
gather was that, when the victim was
brought into the hotel, we never knew
she had a sister in the neighborhood.
It was when the owner of the hotel
seized her phone and prevented her
from going out with some boys in the
area that her sister brought police to
arrest our chairman.”
“Since my children and I were
abandoned by my husband, it was my
mother who is taking care of us, that
was what prompted me into
prostitution. I thank God I have been
able to make a living from the work I
do.”
Source: The Guardian
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