WEEKEND FILE: WIFE MISSING FOR 3 MONTHS FOUND IN BROTHEL AS SEX WORKER

A man in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, got the shock of his life when he traced his wife, who had been missing from home for about three months to a brothel in the troubled city.

The housewife, who was said to have been staying in the brothel as a sex worker, reportedly left her home and two children on the pretext of going to buy something in a provision store and failed to return or make contact until more than three months later when the husband caught up with her. 

Relating the story, a Civilian JTF man in Maiduguri, who assisted the distraught husband catch up with the woman, Kabiru Skido, said he was checking vehicles along Baga market road when the husband of the woman ran to him and requested that he should stop a commercial Keke NAPEP that was approaching them.

“I stopped the oncoming Keke NAPEP when suddenly the man ran to one of them and started dragging a woman out. My colleagues and I intervened to know what was happening. He explained that the woman was his wife and that he traced her to a brothel behind the market but rather than follow him home, she jumped into a Keke NAPEP and was about to escape once again.

“The woman suddenly started shouting saying “yes, you are not taking good care of me. I have to go and find something to take care of myself.”

According to Skido, when they realised that a crowd was about gathering and since they were already speaking Ibo, they had to invite an elderly Igbo businessman from the market, called Pa Okoro, who came and took them away.

Confirming the report, Pa Okoro said the woman told him that her husband had not been giving her pocket money and that he also refused to set up a business for her. According to her, this forced her to go to the brothel to raise some money for her upkeep.

“I invited some elders that joined me in settling them and she has returned back to the husband’s house. It is now left for him to know how to take care of her or she will go back and be seeing other men again. If you do not know how to feed your dog very well, it will certainly feed from the garbage,” Pa Okoro said. (Ripples Nigeria)