By Aliyu DANLADI
A group of women who described themselves as Big Women Association of Nigeria, on Saturday stormed a polling unit in Kubwa (FCT) with placards of various inscriptions.
TBI Africa said some of the women told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at FHA 3rdAvenue 1/ Modern Primary School, Kubwa, venue of the polling unit that the current economic reality had affected their trade.
The leader of the group, Ms Veronica Chiba, said that members of the group no longer record the desired patronage due to the “hard time“.
The women, many of who are in their 30s and 40s, said they resorted to commercial sexual activity due to lack of viable employment and financial resources to embark on feasible businesses.
The women, numbering 20, were seen carrying placards some of which read:
“All our customers are running away from us because of lack of money to pay for our services.“
“We are at the receiving end of the economic hardship.“
“We are losing customers at alarming rate due to the current economic challenge“, among others.
Chiba said many members of the group obtained educational qualifications that could secure them jobs in either public or private sector, adding that some of them were pushed into commercial sex activity due to unemployment.
She called on government to help members of the group, through soft loans and other financial uplift, for them to begin viable business that would enable them contribute their quota to the economic development of the country.
