I have aborted 320 pregnancies at age of 26

Abigail Olori’s meeting with Alhaja Latifat was supposed to be one of transformation, rather, it ended as a deformation of some sort.

The 26-year-old lady, who had lost her parents and had the sole responsibility of catering for her siblings, said that she jumped at the offer to travel to Italy for the proverbial ‘greener pastures’ as a way of meeting the demands of her siblings.

Little did she know that she was being coerced into a higher level of prostitution, and during her confession to Vanguard, she seemed to be in pain, felt dejected as she had been forcefully used by the Alhaja in the last three years.

Abugail narrated how she met Alhaja Latifat and her husband in 2013 when they came to Nigeria (then she was 23-years-old).

“I knew them via a relative of mine, Rofel, when I was residing in Bayelsa with my siblings. Rofel invited me to Lagos; it was during the visit to Lagos that I was introduced to Alhaja Latifat who promised to take me to Italy.

Before the journey, they said they wanted me to become an auxiliary nurse for them in Italy but unfortunately I found myself in Libya. They took me via the desert. We were about 30 that were taken to Libya from Nigeria.

“Since I didn’t have parents, I was only able to raise N10, 000 which the Alhaja claimed was for the passport she procured for me. The agreement was that I will work and pay her N2.4 million once I get to Italy which included the amount she spent to take me abroad and the return on her investment,” Abigail narrated amid pains.

Speaking further, she explained how they were taken to a native doctor called Ewe in Abeokuta, Ogun state where they were were made to swear an oath and were taken to Libya instead of Italy.

And on how she started aborting pregnancies, Abigail narrated: “when I got to Libya and found out that my responsibility was to abort pregnancies for young girls, I refused but Alhaja Latifat and her husband locked me up in a room and beat me severely with a mop stick I had no option but to oblige. Each time I refused to perform abortion for any of the girls, they will lock me up and beat me.

“That was how I started assisting them to terminate unwanted pregnancies for the young girls who were working as call girls for Alhaja Latifat.

“We had girls within the ages of 10-15 working as call girls, sleeping with all sorts of men unprotected. Most of the girls were forced to sleep with elderly men as old as 60 years-old. Some of these girls confessed to me that they were hairdressing apprentices and fashion designers before they were deceived to come to Libya to work as prostitutes.

“Any of the girls who refused to work, they will beat her up. Some of the girls who attempted to escape got into more trouble as they were resold to other traffickers in Libya.

“My main responsibility was to carry out abortion for the girls forced into prostitution. By my calculation, I would have aborted 320 pregnancies in the process. They built instrument which I used to perform the abortion on the girls. If a pregnancy was about a month, and the girl in question notified Alhaja Latifat about the development, the Alhaja Alhaja will not allow me to abort the baby till the pregnancy was about four or five months old.”
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