By Emmanuel Udom
This story you are
about to read is true. It is not a cooked-up story. It happened in the very
heart of Lagos, south-west Nigeria. Get, this message clear here. I am not out
to rubbish my beloved country, Nigeria. I am a story teller.
Fact is, it
is not really uncommon and therefore not limited to Nigeria alone. It is
a global issue. Sex sells, inspite what some people think.
Alice Sunday is a very beautiful lady in her late thirties, with a son born out of wedlock.
Alice Sunday is a very beautiful lady in her late thirties, with a son born out of wedlock.
Meaning, she
is a single mother, raising the child alone, since according to her, the father
dumped her when she was pregnant.
This is what
she told the man who was planning to marry her. The man who contracted me to do
a background checks on her ways.
There is no
big deal here though. All over the world, there are men and women, as single
parents, raising their children with little or no supports from their partners.
Therefore, there is nothing fantastic about this Alice of a lady.
However,
this lady attends one of the many pentecostal churches in Lagos. Off course,
some of us know that most of these pentecostal churches are lousy, noisy and
irritating in their worships.
My intention
is not to rubbish Pentecostal churches in Nigeria, since I am a member of one
of them. But, this is what I do feel a times.
Away from
preamble, Alice claimed she dumped the world for Jesus, the Christ some 10
years ago and ever since then, she has been singing the praises of Jesus the
Christ all the way. Good copy for the some gullible church goers.
But, but, but,
the lady in reality a sex hawker, who plies her trade with style. Judge not,
that you may not be judged, my friends, who are reading this are saying in
their minds.
She lives in
a one room apartment in Surulere, Lagos. Everyone in her compound could swear
by name of God, Allah or Sango or whatever that that Alice is a true
born-again.
That she is
spirit filled, speaking in tongues and doing the works of God with great
passions. This is the impressions the lady want everyone in her compound to
get.
But, last
month, the man who planned to marry Alice contracted this writer to do some
background checks on her.
That is, the
man for reasons best known to him may have had the feelings that there was
something odd about this born-again of a lady.
He may have suspected
that the endless weekend outings to the Lagos Island to see her relations were
odd.
Well, I
needed to do my job. So, I got the picture of the lady, monitored her movement
for some weekends, without her knowing I was trailing her, since she does not
know me from Adam in the first place.
After weeks
of trailings in which I had to sub-contract one of my friends to continue at a
point, when I too got the feelings that the Alice of a lady could be
suspicious, the lead fell into place.
We traced
her to a rented flat at Ikotun, Lagos, where she and some of her friends use on
weekends as operational base for sex hawking.
On weekdays,
these ladies work and on weekends, they hustle for men as commercial sex
hawkers and on Sunday, they dress up and off to the church they go, possibly to
preside as Sunday school teachers and ushers.
My mandate
was not to fine out what the service charge of Alice was, bit to simply do a
background check on her and fine out if indeed she was truly born-again enough
for the man that contracted me to do the job marry her. I delivered on the job.
Yes, none is righteous. No not one. I am not perfect, Alice is not perfect, and
my readers are not perfect either.
I was contracted by a man for the job; a woman too could also contract us for
the job. This is part of what I do as a private investigator, a senior crime
correspondent working full-time with Daily Independent newspaper and off course,
a busy body. God bless you all.
Emmanuel Udom could be reached on: eeudom@yahoo.com
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