June 16, 2026
By Matthew Johnson
LAGOS—Emotions ran high at the Lagos State Police Command yesterday, when a 16-year-old girl, Chidinma, narrated how she was allegedly trafficked from Imo State to Lagos and forced into prostitution for four months, during which she was made to sleep with 30 men daily, beaten repeatedly, and denied payment.
The teenager, who said she was originally learning baking in Imo State, told journalists that a woman she trusted lured her to Lagos with the promise of a job.
According to the Delta State-born girl, “She never told me the work I was coming to do. She only said, ‘You are coming to serve in the office.’ Upon my arrival at a tall building inside Balogun market in Lagos Island, my madam removed my clothes and left me only with pants. There were other young ladies there. She told us to stand by the door and dragged men inside. She gave me a blue drug that made me disoriented. I slept with no fewer than 30 men daily. But sometimes, 60 men in one day.
