A widow has been paraded by Lagos State Police Command alongside some
criminals for allegedly recruiting young schoolgirls as commercial sex
workers in a hotel in Surulere area of the state during school hours.
The suspect, identified as Chinonso Okolokwo, said she was a
commercial sex worker at the said hotel located at Ikate area of
Surulere but denied the charge.
Briefing newsmen on her arrest, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State
Command, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, disclosed that the suspect’s method was to
lure the students from different secondary schools around Surulere to
the hotel.
Okolokwo, according to the CP, would give the students clothes to change into and use them as sex
slaves until school closing hours. Some of the students, as gathered,
went home with between N1,000 and N2,000, depending on the number of
men they attended to. But the amount, it was learned, was just 10
percent of what was paid by their male customers, while the rest was
allegedly pocketed by their managers, among who is Okolokwo.
Speaking with Vanguard, Okolokwo who is from Ebonyi State, said:
“I do not know anything about the schoolgirls. I am also a ‘hustler’
at Sunderland Hotel. I took to prostitution after the death of my
husband 11 years ago. I have four children, but two died before my
husband.
I lodged at the hotel for a week or two before going home to take
care of my children with the proceeds. Several girls from Abuja and
other parts of the country come there to hustle as well. Police raided
the hotel and arrested me. I am not connected with what they alleged.”
Owoseni said investigation was still ongoing to ascertain whether
there was connivance between management of the hotel, the schools
authorities, the suspect and her fleeing cohorts.
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