Economic Hardship: 95 percent of divorcees have taken to prostitution in Abuja – Women NGO Survey

A non-governmental organization operating under the aegis of
Gender Rights and Dignity Forum has revealed that 95 percentage of divorcees have delved into prostitution in Abuja.

The group said, its survey revealed that divorcees, and some married women facing acute economic hardship in the Federal Capital Territory no longer mind the dignity they once have as a woman, but engaged in whores and prostitution in order to survive.

President of the Forum, Mrs Hadija Shuaibu in an interview with CAPITAL POST on Monday in Abuja, raised the alarm at the ugly trend rocking the Nigerian womanhood, stressing that those women are emboldened to do what was formerly an “abominable behavior.”

According to her, these women hang around strategic joints at odd hours, with some chasing politicians and top government officials who they are sure would offer money in return for their indecent behaviour.

She lamented that Nigerian women from diverse cultures and religions were once the pride of Africa in terms of moral behaviour in any part of the world and were well respected, but that impression has long been eroded and they have become, “women of easy virtues”.

Mrs Shuaibu argued that the influx of people into the FCT over time in search of greener pastures with a high number of women has not only made prostitution a past time, but a normal way of life, a development she said, was most unfortunate and a sad story to Nigerian womanhood.

If prostitution was no longer seen as shameful irrespective of circumstances as it were, she said, it “then calls for sober reflection of once highly revered and respected women in Nigeria.

Speaking on way forward, she called on the Federal Government, Ministry of Women Affairs and other female gender based NGOs to rise to the occasion of working on recovery of women dignity.

She urged President Bola Tinubu to tackle hunger through deliberate policies.