A Chinese couple have been fingered as the masterminds of a cartel that brings teenage Chinese girls into Nigeria for prostitution.
A twin duplex building and another two flats service apartments, poles apart on Emina Crescent, off Toyin Street, in Ikeja, Lagos State have been rented for the purpose of displaying the girls like cheap Chinese wares, only these Chinese ware-girls aren’t cheap they come with a mouth-watering price tag.
For a few hours patrons have to pay around $1,000 and for an overnight sex romp $2,500.
The head of the cartel who is referred to as Master, is a no-nonsense Chinese man who often lure the girls to Nigeria under the guise that he would secure them employment at a Chinese factory in Nigeria.
Fake documents are prepared for the girls, and with active connviance of Nigerian Embassy officials in China, short-term visas are issued to this girls.
Some are also illegally transshipped to Nigeria from other African countries.
When recruiting the girls from source, Master and his wife ensure that they recruit underage girls that do not know how to communicate in English.
They recruit this English illiterate girls so that the sex workers do not know how to negotiate with customers.
Speaking our source with inside knowledge said:
“The girls are entitled to half of what they get from the men while our Master takes the remaining half, as return on his investments on them. The girls cannot afford to play smart because they don’t understand English language, which is the language of many of the customers. He and his wife are also in control of their international passports and telephones. They help the girls to reply text messages sent to them in English by customers because the girls don’t understand English, while the customers think they are chatting with the girls sometimes it is the Master and his wife that they are actually chatting with.”
Listen to our source speak again:
“Some of the girls were brought in through Ethiopia. I can’t explain how, but I know Master travel there often. More often, most of the girls usually sourced from poor homes are only made to face the reality after some days in Nigeria when they would have seen how the other girls they meet on ground count dollars every morning when they come back from ‘night duty.’ The sight of dollars and other free gifts they are exposed to have a way of forcing them to fall in line quickly. Sometimes, you have some of the girls that may want to prove stubborn, Master will start by forcing such to drink hot drinks, like Hennessy or Champagne and smoke cigarette. Some will vomit all through the night after being forced to take more than their strength can take. The Master can thereafter decide to initiate such stubborn girls by sleeping with them himself and in the process will beat them seriously in the night to make them succumb.”
The cartel is made up of Master, his wife and two other Chinese young men, in addition to about five Nigerian domestic aides, who either serve as drivers or cleaners.
Regulars at the burgeoning sex villas include Senators, other politicians and businessmen.