Nigerian girls tell horror stories of living in Italy
- Nigerian girls trafficked to Europe recount their ordeals in the hands of their traffickers
- They also revealed the danger they face in the hands of their 'clients'
- One of the girls said she had to pay 80 euros a week for food, 250 euros a month for the rent, as well as the gas and electric bills
- This was aside the 30,000 euros she had to pay off
The rate of Nigerian girls getting trafficked to Europe to sell their bodies have quadrupled from a few hundreds of women to several thousands in 2016.
In a series of interview and research done by Maggie Neil, a writer and researcher based in Italy, two Nigerian girls, Favour and Peace, revealed the unexpected horrors they found in Italy.
Favour is from Edo state, though from the more rural area, outside of the city. She was reluctant to take an oath and follow a woman to Italy, afraid she would be forced into prostitution.
It was only once the woman assured her that she would be working in a shop that Favour agreed. She was told the money would be easy to come by once she was in Europe.
When she first arrived at the madam’s house, Favour said she was exhausted. She slept for two days. On the third day, the woman said it was time to go to work.
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Favour said apart from the 30,000 euros she had to pay off, she would also have to pay 80 euros a week for food, 250 euros a month for the rent, as well as the gas and electric bills.
First, the woman took her shopping. They bought clothes that Favour thought were strange and revealing.
A few days later, the woman said she was ready for work. They took bus after bus, and then they walked. She found herself in the “bush,” standing on the side of the road.
She was told to put on different clothes, clothes she had bought earlier with the woman, and that were now tucked inside the bag she had brought.
When it finally dawned on her what she would have to do, Favour cried. She cried all day, and for many days she refused to work.
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She said when she went home with nothing, the woman would beat her. After some time, she felt she had no choice, and she gave in.
Peace, another victim told the journalist that: “Sometimes, those clients don’t even want to sleep with you so much as they want company, and with them, you try to be jovial, you make them laugh.
"But then there are the clients who don’t want to pay you, the clients who are aggressive. Those are the bad clients.”
The two Nigerian girls recounted experience of being beaten and robbed by dangerous men when they worked the night.
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