Patoo Abraham has become famous for
fighting for the rights of prostitutes, but
what she – and those she is trying to help –
do to make a living is illegal and frowned
upon by many in the country. Abraham is not only proud of her profession
but is also campaigning to ensure that
prostitution is legalised and that s*x
workers are respected in Africa’s most
populous country. The 48-year-old has led a couple of protests in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial
capital, demanding the rights of prostitutes
in a country where s*x vendors suffer
physical harm at the hands of their
punters. Continue… Under the auspices of different organisations,
scores of prostitutes marched on the streets
of Lagos, chanting provocative slogans. This boldness is unprecedented, and the
protesters carried their signature red
umbrellas and T-shirts with the inscription
“s*x work is work, we need our rights.” “We are tired of dying in silence,” Abraham,
who heads the Nigerian chapter of African s*x
Workers Alliance (ASWA), told Al Jazeera. “We
want to be able to practise our profession
with pride like every other person. We want an
end to name-calling and stigmatisation. We are s*x workers and not asawo [a Yoruba
derogatory name for prostitutes].” s*x work, said Abraham, is normal work and
that there are “s*x workers everywhere under
one form of disguise or the other”. “[The]
government should stop criminalising our
work,” said the woman who is also the
president of the Women of Power Initiative (WOPI), a non-governmental organisation
established to advance the cause of s*x work
in Nigeria. Although Nigeria has posted impressive
economic growth, overtaking South Africa to
become Africa’s largest economy,
unemployment remains widespread and many
Nigerian women have ended up working as
prostitutes in part because they cannot find work. Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said in
April that no fewer than 5.3 million youths are
jobless, and the World Bank last year put the
number of Nigerians living in destitution at 100
million.
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I can't believe someone would fight for right in promiscuity.Something that is actually not good for you. SMH

In broad day light
Some people no get shame oh
Guess she's proud of her job

Oga JONA DON SUFFER..!!!!

Djicemob: I can't believe someone would fight for right in promiscuity.Something that is actually not good for you. SMH

is not better they have rights than watching police officers take advantage of them This is suppose to be D oldest occupation in the world hw cum this ppl do not av any right @all in nigeria is beyond me

Djicemob: I can't believe someone would fight for right in promiscuity.Something that is actually not good for you. SMH

is it not better they have rights than watching police officers take advantage of them This is suppose to be D oldest occupation in the world hw cum this ppl do not av any right @all in nigeria is beyond me

ejiro2130:

is it not better they have rights than watching police officers take advantage of them This is suppose to be D oldest occupation in the world hw cum this ppl do not av any right @all in nigeria is beyond me

Dude WTF u on about? U want the govt to legalize prostitution?

Djicemob: Dude WTF u on about? U want the govt to legalize prostitution?

prostitution is one of those things u can't kick out of a community, instead of pretending it isn't there y not accept the fact that is der n bin regulated