“Unknowing to me the bus ride marked the beginning of my journey to Mali a West African Country, where I was abducted for prostitution and human slavery.”Expectedly, she said my family waited for my return from school on that fateful day, but, sadly I did not return home.Favour narrates horrible experience
“We went for some days then we were transferred to a long bus and the driver told us that we were going to Mali. “I was subsequently locked in a room for several days without food. After some days, she took me to Senegal that she wants to give me to people selling gold since I cannot prostitute for her and give her money,” she said.According to her, “The merchant selling gold in Senegal rejected me, saying that she should take me back to Nigeria. She was very angry and called me a witch and used a pestle to beat me.
“The bus I entered was supposed to take me to Cotonou but the bus stopped in a village and the driver said the bus that would come and take me to Cotonou would come but after two days, I did not see the driver again.”“I started crying and now used somebody’s phone to call my mum, it was on a Saturday and she now told me to go and look for a church in the area on Sunday.
“The pastor arranged all our travel documents, they took us to the Nigerian embassy in Burkina Faso, and after some days, he bought a ticket for me and we left Burkina Faso.My daughter returned to Nigeria impregnated, she was after rape – Victims Mother “The doctors asked if I will like the pregnancy to be aborted and I refused because it is against my religious belief and at the same time, we were disturbed that how can she give birth to a child that doesn’t have a father because she was raped.
“They said it was conception pain she was having and it wasn’t time for her delivery because by then the pregnancy was about six months. Speaking further, she said amidst her ordeal a man who claimed to be a police officer tried to make love advances to her daughter.