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The
 team here at Eclipse Live, the curators of Gidi Culture Festival, would
 like to invite you to the exclusive Bloggers Festival, taking place at 
Iconic Bar, Elegushi beach on 15th February 2014.</div>
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As
 the much anticipated beach festival approaches, we would like to give 
you the opportunity to feel the effervescence of a beach festival, so 
come eat, dance and hang out with our fun and vibrant team from 3:00pm.</div>
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If
 you are  as excited as we are; that's OK because everyone loves a day 
out. All you have to do is RSVP to press@gidiculturefestival.com and we 
will do the rest!</div>
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The Gidi Culture Festival Presents The Bloggers Festival

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In the beginning, FESTAC Town was a purely residential estate. 
Originally referred to as Festival Town or FESTAC village, it is found 
along the Lagos/Badagry Expressway in Lagos.<br />
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But FESTAC is no longer what it used to be. It has lost its past glory 
in more ways than one. In particular, it is not a residential estate in 
every material particular anymore. It has become home to various 
activities.<br />
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<b>Town of prostitutes...</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5438533803477296299" name="more"></a>One of the businesses that define FESTAC Town 
presently is prostitution. Indeed, it could be said there is a festival 
of sex, going on in some parts of the town. Some of the residents 
volunteered that they were harassed daily by the commercial sex workers 
on the prowl.<br />
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One of the preferred places where the women of easy virtues display 
their wares is First Avenue. As night falls, they converge on the long 
stretch and wait patiently like vultures.  While some stand in twos and 
threes, others go solo. And to keep warm and high while standing in the 
dark, some of them puff cigarettes and weeds.<br />
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In various sizes and shapes, they come. Some are-not-so-young, others 
look as young as 14 and 15 year- olds, flaunting apple size breasts and 
buttocks still forming. But here, age is nothing; street wisdom is 
everything. Everyone strives to beat the other in the highly competitive
 sex trade. The roadside prostitutes, made up of students, married 
women, divorces and single mothers openly solicit for patronage from 
passers-by.<br />
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Perhaps, the highest concentration of sex workers in FESTAC is in a 
brothel found near the bride, linking the town with the extension. 
Indeed, it could be described as a ‘one-stop sex super market.’ There, 
sex walks on all fours. Ladies in skimpy attires that leave little to 
imagination strut their stuff. Some are bold enough to solicit for 
patronage, promising to give prospective customers “treats.” They also 
adopt fancy names like Beauty, Mimi, Cindy, Suzzie, Floxy, etc.<br />
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Recently, Daily Sun spent a night at the prostitutes’ paradise and saw 
them, reenacting Sodom and Gomorrah. Indeed, anything can happen there. 
Men were seen caressing women openly just as lovemaking took place 
inside cars parked in the neighbourhood.  Drug dealing and weed smoking 
were also some of the activities going on there.<br />
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<b>How they operate</b><br />
Some of the ladies come from elsewhere to ‘hustle’ in FESTAC at night 
and leave in the morning. Coming to ‘work’, they dress somewhat 
respectably but when they get to their ‘office,’ they don their business
 outfits. The work clothes consist of breasts and belly exposing tops 
and tight fitting bum shorts, low waist trousers and micro-mini skirts.<br />
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Investigations revealed that some of the prostitutes’ camp in the 
brothel located near the bridge, linking the town with the extension. A 
number of them take up rooms at the rate of N3,500 daily and split the 
bill among themselves. The ladies, who camp at the brothel entertain 
clients in their rooms. But for a customer to be entertained inside the 
room before 12am, he has to pay N1,000 to the management of the hotel.<br />
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<b>Services   </b><br />
The market rate for sex there is not fixed. It depends on the time, 
class and desperation of those involved. The call girls charge between 
N1,500 and N3,000 for a trick. An all-night outing is put at anything 
from N3,000.<br />
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Some of the girls can engage in three-some if the price is right. A 
lady, who gave her name as Sylvia, told the reporter that she could 
sleep with two men if they pay well. “If two guys can pay me N8,000, I 
will spend the night with them.” Asked if she can cope with two men, she
 smiled and said: “Try me. No bi today yash dey for back.”<br />
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And in their desperation for customers, some of them flaunt their area 
of specialisation. Happiness, as one of them called herself, said she 
was a blow job expert. Another said she was willing to do it through the
 anus.<br />
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<b>Condoms, pants everywhere</b><br />
Evidences that the sex business is thriving are everywhere. For 
instance, used condoms are strewn all about the neighbourhood. Pants and
 bras of every colour hang in the open windows, painting the area in the
 colour of a red light district.<br />
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<b>Deaths</b><br />
It was gathered that deaths are sometimes recorded in the brothel or 
guesthouse. A source said: “We have witnessed instances where dead 
bodies were brought out of the brothel.”<br />
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<b>Residents’ dilemma</b><br />
Those living near the enclave of sex are crying blue murder. According 
to them, the nuisance value of the commercial sex workers and their 
patrons is unbearable.<br />
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A resident, who lives close to the brothel complained: “They said it was
 a guest house but it is purely a brothel, it is for harlots. They are 
constituting nuisance and this is affecting the upbringing of our 
children. Sometimes, as early as 6.00pm, I can’t even see the way to 
enter my compound; somebody will just come and pack at the gate and the 
manager and so-called security men they have there will not control 
their customers in terms of how they park their cars.<br />
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They don’t have parking space. In fact, it is compound problem. It is 
the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) that caused this problem. I can tell
 that the house, standing there is not the one FHA approved. FHA knows 
that, the owner of the hotel knows that.  They approved about five or 10
 rooms as a guesthouse but what they have there is something else. I 
have called the police but nothing happened. Even policemen used to 
sleep there. You can investigate by yourself. So, they are the same. 
Sometimes, armed robbers jump from the guest house into my compound. Do 
you believe that a whole officer was asking me irrelevant questions. Am I
 supposed to go to the hotel to monitor what is happening? The police, 
by the nature of their job, are supposed to know that this thing exists 
in Festac. If I complain to the police, they will start asking me: Did 
you see the armed robber? Was he carrying gun? They may want to 
implicate me; nothing is impossible.”<br />
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He further said: “This thing is not supposed to be here. If you ask 
other neighbours, they will narrate the same experience. If you come 
about 6.00pm, you will wonder if someone is living in my house, you will
 think that my compound is even the hotel. They will park cars in front 
of my house and have sex right inside the cars, not inside the hotel. It
 is the people that came to the hotel that are doing that. Another thing
 is the music they play.<br />
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They start playing the music from 6.00pm till 5.00am the following day. 
The speakers will be booming, disturbing the neighbourhood. This goes on
 everyday of the week. I wonder why FHA will allow this kind of nonsense
 in this place. They are there, taking bribe; if you give them money you
 will build any kind of nonsense you want in FESTAC. Otherwise, why 
should they allow this?”<br />
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Another resident said his children and visitors had been harassed by 
patrons, who mistook them for sex workers. “It is better forgotten,” he 
said with unmistakable agony in his voice.<br />
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Another resident added: “I live at the back of the guesthouse. We find 
it very difficult to enter our houses, especially in the evenings 
because harlots and men of the under world will be everywhere, blocking 
the road. So, everyday that you enter your house, you thank God that you
 have succeeded for that day. We have encountered all sorts of problems 
because of the guesthouse. Sometime last year, somebody was visiting us 
in the evening; he could not have access to our house. What he did was 
that he parked the vehicle beside the hotel and came in. After staying 
with us and was about to go, he discovered that the vehicle he parked 
there had been vandalised. They took away his laptop, international 
passport and everything that was inside the vehicle. So, we are begging 
the government to come and rescue us, we are in a very big problem in 
FESTAC.”<br />
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He added that the place was a den of thieves.  “A lot of times, armed 
robbers run into the hotel and police will pursue them and get them. 
After few days, it will recur. Our lives are not safe in his this Close 
we are living. We are living in fear. If you come to the back of the 
guesthouse, you will see how the harlots display their pants, bras and 
other things in the windows and this is a place where we are training 
our children.<br />
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Anyone who comes around here in the evenings will witness what we are 
saying. We acquired the place as a residential area but we are crying 
because of the hotel and hoodlums that are attacking us. We are begging 
government and people concerned to come and rescue us before things get 
out of hand.”<br />
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On the efforts the residents have made to redress the situation, one of 
the residents said: “We have reported this matter to the owner of the 
hotel and he promised us that he would look into it but up till now 
nothing has been done. The situation of the place is getting worse by 
the day. To make matters worse, they started to play band every night. 
As soon you get home to rest after a hard day’s work, they start playing
 band. We don’t sleep till about 5.00am when they close. All these 
things are happening in a residential area. We have called the man times
 without number to see what we are passing through. His progress should 
not be a problem to us. He acquired a land as we acquired ours through 
FHA as a residential area. Only God knows how he got the approval to run
 it as a hotel. Hotel is different from brothel. Hotel is a place where 
people go to rest but this one is the abode of harlots from all over the
 country. They come and pay for rooms and begin to operate from there. 
Maybe, six or 10 girls will be resident in one room to terrorise the 
FESTAC area. It is an eye sore. We have young people we are training and
 they are going out and coming in. We have no value as human beings in 
FESTAC because of the area we are living and what is happening there. We
 are begging government to come and rescue us.”<br />
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<b>Petitions</b><br />
The concerned residents have also petitioned the FHA and management of 
the guesthouse over the issue. The petitions bother on noise pollution, 
blockade of the road, leading to their houses by guests and patrons of 
the brothel, provocative and irresponsible behaviour of the harlots, 
loss of value in the property within the vicinity and revocation permit 
to operate as guesthouse.<br />
<br />
Efforts to speak with the managing director of the outfit proved 
abortive. Daily Sun called him on telephone number 08034345784 but 
though it rang there was no response.</div>
<b>By Henry Umahi</b></div>

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