It was some sort of a tragic-comedy in the morning of Friday, July 8th, 2016, at a popular hotel in Lagos (name withheld) when an argument between a prostitute and her customer nearly led to the death of the prostitute when the angry customer pushed her violently into a drainage in which she hit her head against its walling and fainted immediately before her assailant was forced to rush her to a hospital.
Like a well scripted Nollywood movie most part of which this blogger was a direct witness, the incident started from a disturbing noise emanating from one of the rooms of the very beautiful hotel on the topmost floor which was initially dismissed for a cry of a woman being dealt with mercilessly by a man who had taken a very strong aphrodisiac before having a carnal knowledge of her. But was however, taken more serious later on, due to the piercing shrillness in the voice that was making the noise which signaled that she was likely to be in distress.
And that was why two gentle men relaxing in the lounge not too far from the room considered as the source of the noise went straight to rain knocks on the door till it went opened by one of the occupants. That was when it was discovered a short bulky fair complexioned man was the one assaulting a young lady who was apparently a prostitute. It was a herculean task for the two young men to restrain the man who had practically turned the prostitute into a punching bag from dealing her further blows. And when the two fighters were asked for the cause of their combat, what they said was quite ridiculous.
The man who was simply referred to as Otunba claimed that he picked the prostitute from the Itunu Awe Show organized by the hotel within an expansive bar adjacent to the hotel the previous night and that he could not sleep with her for two reasons. One, because he had to accommodate a friend of his in his room since other rooms the friend would have lodged in had been all booked and he could not be sleeping with a girl while his friend was already a third party in the room. And two, because he was even too drunk to be interested in sex during the night that he actually staggered his way up through the four levels of staircases into the room. But the prostitute had a different story to tell.
The prostitute on her own part claimed that Otunba actually slept with her in the night but not in the presence of his friend. She said he took her into the toilet closed the door, asked her to take off her dress, place her hands on the bidet, shoot out her buttocks and he gave her a rear entry! But Otunba would not hear any of that as he kept rationalizing that how would he sleep with a woman, especially, giving her a “doggy” and he would not know. And he seemed to have a case as the prostitute was inconsistent with her answer when Otunba probed whether he used a condom or not.
She first replied that he used it and when asked to show where the sachet of the condom was dropped, she later said he did not use a condom. And then, Otunba flared up that the prostitute was lying on him as he could not have slept with her without using a condom since he had full packs of it both in his room and his car. And to further prove his case, Otunba dipped his hand into his camouflaged trousers and wrapped his hand around his manhood and then asked one of the two men who came to separate the fight to smell it and tell if it had actually gone into a woman and came back since the prostitute did not claim she also bath for him after the “sex”, and the answer of the man with “detective nose” after perceiving the hand was that it did not ooze of a sexual smell.
So, Otunba further explained that why he was actually beating the prostitute was that when she woke him up in the morning that she wanted to leave, he told her to wait that since his friend would be getting his own room by the time some lodgers began to check out that morning, he would then be able to sleep with her and pay her off. He added that, he was however shocked when the prostitute started claiming that he had already slept with her in the night that all Otunba needed to do was to pay her the #10,000.00 (ten thousand naira) they agreed on. But he said he could not pay her since he knew he didn’t sleep with her, but the prostitute wanted the money by force and that was how the fight started.
By that time, two of the security men at the hotel had joined them in the room to mediate in the matter and they begged the prostitute to forget the money and go, but she insisted she was not moving an inch without collecting ten thousand naira. But for them not to keep disturbing lodgers in the other rooms with noise, the security men persuaded Otunba and the prostitute to follow them downstairs to go and settle the matter which they both did. Meanwhile, at the point of going downstairs, Otunba discovered that his blackberry phone was missing and insisted that the prostitute was the one who must have taken it.
She first denied she did not take the phone, but when they got downstairs and she was taken to a corner where she was persuaded by the security men, she owned up to taking the phone which she kept in her pants, and that she would not release it until she got her money. However, after further persuasion, she released the phone to the security men and they both contributed one thousand each, making two thousand, gave it to her and asked her to leave. But like a person who has almost a fatal date with destiny, the prostitute would not leave and insisted she wanted the shortfall of eighth thousand naira before she would leave. She kept abusing and raining curses on Otunba that all his children would die off one by one unless she got the money.
Meanwhile, Otunba who was fuming with anger and kept charging forward to hit the prostitute was constantly restrained by the security men from doing so. When the director of the hotel later came into the scene, he appealed to Otunba to be calm and asked one of the security men to lead the prostitute to the bus stop and ensured she took a bus to where ever she wanted to go. Reluctantly, the prostitute allowed the security man to lead her out of the gate and she immediately brought out a phone battery from her jeans pocket and made to smash it with a stone on a low concrete walling by the hotel’s entrance and that was when the security man realised she had removed the battery of Otunba’s blackberry phone she released to them.As the security man rushed at her to prevent her from destroying the battery, she pushed him away and the security man was only able to grab her hand bag as she bolted towards the drainage beside the hotel and threw the battery into it.
Hence, the security man went back angrily with her bag into the hotel and asked her to be locked out, but she forced her way back in after the security man. Otunba was still with the hotel’s director when the security man came to the director still standing in front of the hotel that the prostitute had just destroyed Otunba’s phone battery, but the director still asked him to give her bag back to her and lead her back to the bus stop. But by then, Otunba had gone very furious and insisted he would not allow the prostitute to leave unless he got a new battery from her and that marked the beginning of the near tragic twist to the story.
The security man was leading the prostate away in front while Otunba was following fast on their trail in an attempt to catch up with them and demand for a new battery from the prostitute. And by the time Otunba would catch up with them, the prostitute and the security man were already at the bus stop trying to wave down a tricycle for her to leave. Seeing Otunba closing in behind them, the prostitute ran to pick up a big stone and threatened she would smash Otunba’s head if he moved close to her. Seeing that, Otunba too went to one side and picked up two broken bricks and dashed towards the prostitute who was already standing beside a big drainage along the expressway.
After pushing off the security man who was standing between him and the prostitute, Otunba first landed her a punch on the face and the prostitute staggered and jumped to the other side of the drainage but Otunba jumped after her immediately. And before anyone knew what was happening, Otunba pushed her violently on the chest; she fell backwards and straight into the drainage as she hit her head almost deadly on its walling and laid lifelessly in the drainage. It then took the effort of one of the passersby who had formed a small crowd around the scene to bring the fainted prostitute out.
Otunba, who first made an attempt to leave the scene claiming the prostitute was only simulating death was prevented by the crowd from doing so and was forced to carry her into a tricycle to the hospital. At the time of taking her for medical attention, the prostitute’s long eye lashes were still flickering intermittently which meant that she was still alive.
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