escapades of these desperate poor girls in the fast lane in Nigeria.
I have seen how poor Nigerian parents living in the ghettos in Lagos
struggle to make ends meet while providing for their sons and
daughters in tertiary schools.
They harass well to do citizens to help them financially and most of
them cannot even afford three square meals a day. But their sons and
daughters have expensive N28, 000 – N180, 000 Blackberry (BB) and
iPhone smart phones for which each one would spend an average of N3,
000 monthly for making phone calls and sending text messages.
I know a poor female student at the leading university in Lagos who is
from a poor family, but she is using expensive BB and her parents are
struggling to pay her school fees. But they still allow her to keep
her over N68, 000 BB and they know that she spends over N100, 000
annually on calls and text messages! They accepted all the lies she
told them how she got the BB and how she would be paying for the
service. Of course her mates and neighbours she is foolishly competing
with know that she is one of the "runs" babes on campus who are part
time prostitutes on and off campus. She is one of those female
students who shuttle from one city to another claiming to be doing
business and don't tell their parents the truth about their escapades
in living life in the fast lane of the dog eat dog rat race.
"My daughter was a big girl. She was a good girl," her father would defend her.
But he never knew her boyfriends and sugar daddies who paid for her
airfares and hotel accommodations until she fell into the wrong hands
of killer boyfriends? Stupid father.
The boys from poor families also engage in illegal business such as
pimping, stealing and scams to get quick money to buy their own BBs
and other luxury gadgets like the big boys from rich families. But
these boys still depend on their poor parents for school fees and
pocket money. Their parents see them with luxury items they cannot
afford and still allow them to keep them until they are caught and
disgraced or end up as armed robbers, kidnappers and terrorists.
These foolish parents push their sons and daughters into crime and prostitution.