Commercial sex workers in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, have vowed that activities of ritual killers cannot stop their business.
Rather, they said, they had devised means of countering potential attacks by the killers who had been on rampage in the city in recent times.
Among other preventive measures, some say they won’t follow men to hotels again while others say they will get suspicious of unusually high price offers.
Others still, according to ‘The Punch’, will get pepper spray ready to unleash on sex clients who tuen attackers overnigh
Last week, the police arrested the prime suspect behind the serial killing of young women in some hotels in the state, Gracious David West, who confessed to the crime.
It was gathered that at Casablanca, a popular place in the Port Harcourt GRA, where the commercial sex workers usually gather every night to canvass money for sex, observed the huge number of young women, who converged on the place around 9.30pm on Saturday.
Asked why the news of serial killers on the prowl had not stopped them from the trade, one of them, who gave her name simply as Stacy, told Southern City News that she and some of her colleagues had decided to get pepper spray to attack any man that would come after their lives in hotel rooms.
“I have been in this trade for a long time and when we began to hear about the killings of girls in hotels, some of us agreed to be moving with pepper spray. We will apply the pepper spray on them if they come to kill us,” she said.
Another commercial sex worker, who gave her name simply as Sabina, said she was not moved by the news of the serial killers, adding that she had plans to begin to mix pepper with water and put in a small bottle.
“With the small bottle, I can target the eyes of the bad man. I cannot allow anybody to use me for rituals. With pepper in his eyes, I will shout and people will come to see what is happening,” Sabina stated.
But another sex worker, who gave her name as Miracle, told Southern City News that she had decided not to follow any man, who offers to pay more than the normal, adding that men, who were into ritual killings, always promise to pay higher for a night.
“The normal charge for a night is between N6,000 and N7,000. But if someone comes to me and says ‘I will give you N30,000 for a night’, definitely, I will not follow the person. Which man will pay a sex worker N30,000 for a night if he is not planning evil?” Miracle queried.
However, another call girl, who said she returned from Ghana last year, said though she had never gone to hotels with her patrons, the news about the killings of young women in hotel rooms had reinforced her belief that it was senseless following a man to his hotel room for sex till the following morning.
