EXPOSED! Festival Of Sex Going On In FESTAC

 

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.
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.

Town of prostitutes…

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.

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.

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.



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.

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.

How they operate
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.

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.

Services
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.

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.”

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.

Condoms, pants everywhere
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.

Deaths
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.”
Residents’ dilemma
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.