…As hawkers now shun Lagos customers over
deadly virus
Commercial sex workers, who ply their trade in Ado
Ekiti are currently angry. They are angry because the
dreaded Ebola disease, which has spread to Lagos, is
spoiling business for them.
The dreaded Ebola virus came into the country
through a Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, who has since
died in a Lagos hospital. Two more persons, a
Nigerian nurse, who treated the Liberian, and an
official of the Economic Community of West African
States (ECOWAS), have also died after being infected
by Sawyer.
Checks by Daily Sun in about six brothels in Ado Ekiti
revealed that commercial sex workers in the capital
city now literally drive away would be customers
from Lagos and any prospective client that reveals he
is from Lagos.
In the same way, patrons of call girls in Ekiti now ask
about the recent movement of any of the prostitutes
before choosing who to do business with. This is to
find out and avoid those who might have gone to
Lagos.
A young lady, who gave her name as Lovie Baby, is a
pretty commercial sex worker in a brothel in
Ojumose area of Ado Ekiti. The Akwa Ibom State-
born prostitute told the reporter, after consuming a
few bottles of beer on the reporter’s bill, that since
the Ebola outbreak in Lagos, many of her colleagues,
including herself, now run away from customers
from the nation’s commercial capital.
“Bros, dis life no too sweet o, but no one wants to
die. Nowadays, if any man comes to meet me and
says he is from Lagos, I will run o! Because I don’t
want to get that Ebola virus o!” she said.
Chichi, another sex worker in a brothel at Okeyinmi
area of Ado Ekiti, told the reporter that she was a
student of a tertiary institution in Kano. She said she
came all the way from Kano State where she lives
with her parents to do some ‘runs’ – a term for part-
time prostitution – with her friends and sisters in Ado
Ekiti. Asked why she ran from school, she said the
school was currently on strike.
Chichi told the reporter that her friends and sisters,
who have been on ground and understand the trade
better in the Ado Ekiti area, have warned her
vehemently to beware of men, who claim to be from
Lagos, as she could contract the Ebola virus from
them.
Said she: “Although I know that men from Lagos pay
good money for sex, my people here have warned
me not to let them touch me, let alone ‘do business’
with me. I don’t want to die now, so I am not
attending to any Lagos man now. I prefer the local
people. When Ebola is no more, then we can start
thinking of playing with men from Lagos.”
Another commercial sex worker, who wouldn’t have
anything to do with any man from Lagos is Joy. The
young lady, who claims she is from Benin, Edo State
capital, operates from a guest house along Iworoko
Road, Ado-Ekiti. She was quite frank about the Ebola
scare. She said she had actually nursed the thought
of leaving Ekiti for Lagos in search of greener
pastures in her line of business, adding, however,
that she was already changing her mind now that
Ebola is in Lagos.
“You see, I wanted to leave this place for Lagos but
this Ebola problem is causing me to have a change of
mind.”
She said men in Ekiti State were not too generous to
commercial sex workers like her. “I am really
suffering here because of that. But I have recently
been turning down requests for visits to Lagos by my
clients there because you don’t know who has it and
who doesn’t, since they say mere kissing or body
contact transmits the disease,” she said as she puffed
on a stick of cigarette.
But some others are hardly bothered about the
disease. Although, they shrink at the mere mention of
Ebola, they wish and pray that they would never be
visited by the disease.
“I don’t know about that kind of a thing and I believe
it will not happen to me. But my business goes on
with any man that can pay me well,” Chinwe, another
sex worker said.
However, a post on the Ebola virus on the social
media, credited to Joyce Akpata, Director-General,
Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce, and entitled:
US Department Ebola Alert, gave further hints on
preventing measures and steps to take on the
disease. It reads in part: “Our medical specialists
remind everyone that they should be following the
guidelines from the Centre for Disease Control and
the World Health Organisation.”
According to the post, a major reservoir for Ebola is
the fruit bat. Transmission to humans is thought to
originate from infected bats or primates that have
become infected by bats. Undercooked infected bat
and primate (bush) meat transmits the virus to
humans and human to human transmission is only
achieved by physical contact with a person, who is
acutely and gravely ill from the Ebola virus or their
body fluids. Transmission among humans is almost
exclusively among caregiver family members or
health care workers, tending to the very ill. The virus
is easily killed by contact with soap, bleach, sunlight,
or drying.
But for most commercial sex workers in Ekiti, it’s
better to avoid clients from Lagos. “How do you
determine a man that is suffering from Ebola? My
brother, it’s better to keep away from any man you
know is from Lagos, at least, for now,” Joy said.


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Am not one to judge buh shouldn't this be good for them? At least, they get to try 'better' jobs.

Better

Ebola knows no boundry,it has gone beyound lagos. Everybody should go for medical check up and know your status o!