Adeola Omotoso, the daughter of Nollywood actress Jumoke George, has recounted how she was sold for prostitution in Mali.\n<\/p>\n
PUNCH Online had earlier reported that Adeola was reunited with her mother\u00a0after she was found in Mali.\n<\/p>\n
The victim, who spoke in a recent interview, revealed that her ordeal started after she met someone who offered to help her travel to Mali for work.\n<\/p>\n
When Adeola got to the country\u2019s capital, she was informed that she had been \u201cbought\u201d and would have to work as a prostitute to repay 1.5 million CFA francs.<\/p>\n
She said, \u201cI met someone who introduced travelling to Mali to me. She said she knows someone who owns a pharmacy and asked if I could travel there to handle the business.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI agreed but didn\u2019t inform anyone at home. We travelled by road for four days through Cotonou, Togo, Ghana, and other countries.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I got to Bamako in Mali, I called the contact I was given. When I got to the person\u2019s house, she said she is my madam and that she bought me from my sister. She said I\u2019ll work to pay her 1.5 million CFA francs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adeola further shared, \u201cI was very confused and tried to confirm if I was at the right address. She said I was there for prostitution.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI told her I can\u2019t do it and would rather die. She threatened me, and I told her she\u2019s free to do whatever she wants.\u201d <\/p>\n
For her refusal to comply, Adeola said her phone and travel documents were taken from her, leading to her being stranded.\n<\/p>\n
She was later taken to a brothel but escaped after a sympathetic man helped her get a job as a food vendor.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWe later went to where we would stay. When we got there, I knew I wouldn\u2019t be able to survive.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI told her I can\u2019t work as a prostitute, but I can do other jobs to pay her. She took my phone and travel documents,\u201d she added.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I met a man there and explained my ordeal to him. He helped me in finding a job with a food seller in another location.\u201d<\/p>\n
She continued, \u201cWhile working as a food seller there, I heard stories and saw Nigerians who died because of prostitution.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to raise some money so I could come back home, and I didn\u2019t want to return home empty. I thought about calling my mum and kids, but I couldn\u2019t call because I felt ashamed of myself.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI left home since four years and have nothing to show for it. I was suffering but didn\u2019t know what to do. I even told my roommate to not post me on social media if I die.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how good my mum is before God that made him save me from all the evil that was about to befall me in Mali.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adeola Omotoso, the daughter of Nollywood actress Jumoke George, has recounted how she was sold for prostitution in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[56351,4080,34527,77,28981,56352,2743,56353,13705,56354,35252,20571,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-127701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-adeola-omotoso","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-daughter","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-human-trafficking","13":"tag-jumoke-george","14":"tag-mali","15":"tag-nigerian-actress","16":"tag-nollywood","17":"tag-personal-experience","18":"tag-prostitution","19":"tag-true-story","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114562235384441521","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}