Abigail Nweke Alo In Police-net For Allegedly Turning Schoolgirls To Sex Workers "Ashewo" In Benue. Pictured

Four schoolgirls Felicia Nzuworgar, 17, Patience Williams, 18, Angela Benjamin, 17 and Charity Nkwogor, all from Okun and Vandeikya LGA of Benue State, made the disclosure to Vanguradngr, while narrating how they were recruited into prostitution by Abigail Nweke Alo, aka Chairlady.

They claimed that she took them from their homes, in January, under the pretense that she was taking them to Lagos where she had a drinking spot to work as sales girls, but ended up as sex workers in Calabar. On their way, they stopped in Enugu where they spent the night in the house of a man who, according to her, had 7 wives.

The man was said to have given them concoction to drink after which they were warned that if they tried to run away, their private parts would rot and they would die. The next day, at the alleged brothel where they were lodged, the girls said Abigail gave them boxer shorts to wear and begin to 'hustle' for men like other girls in the place were doing. .

When they refused, 'Chairlady' descended on them and beat them mercilessly. They recounted how each of them slept with an average of 20 men every day while Abigail collected the money they made, leaving them with N500 as feeding money. .

They explained that when they started the commercial sex work, it was very painful as they were not used to sleeping with such a large number of men daily. They said Abigail, on arrival in Calabar, having collected their phones, did not allow any of them to step outside the alleged brothel for fear that they might run away.

Chairlady, however, said her arrest by operatives from Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of Cross River State Police Command was due to jealousy and that she was not the one who brought them to Calabar.

John Eluu, Cross River State Police Command Public Relations Officer, said the suspected human trafficker will face the law. Chairlady (pictured below) has since been charged to court for alleged kidnapping and engaging in prostitution.