Speaking at Naptip office, Kwara state, she said she had to warn the boss of impending danger which the bead would inflict on him if he tried to sleep with her.
“When I bought my waist-beads some two years ago, I did so because of fashion. But do you know that the beads eventually
saved me from the hands of those who lured me to the far Lebanon for slavery related endeavours?”
“I was linked up by a fellow who facilitated my movement to Lebanon sometime in October last year. The fellow dangled before me a teaching job of English language if I would go, even though
my academic qualification is Ordinary National Diploma (OND) in Accountancy.
There was no nexus between what I read and what I was being offered, but the desire to travel abroad overwhelmed my sense of
reasoning as at the time in question.
“The first thing I observed on getting there was the inclement weather condition. The cold was so much on my health that each
time I coughed, I was throwing up blood-stained sputum with serious chest pains.
Besides, rather than taking me to any school as a teacher as planned, I was subjected into a house help job, fetching water with heavy buckets from a distance location into the storey building apartment I was housed in. I was working like a slave, doing all sorts of menial jobs.
“To worsen my situation, my master started making advances towards me. I tried all I could to ward him off, but he would not
relent. I had to call him aside one day to let him know that no other man could sleep with me aside the one that gave me the waist bead.
He dared me by asking me of the likely consequences of him having the affair with me, despite the repeated warnings.
“I promptly told him that such a man would be mentally deranged for six days and that on the seventh day, he would die. That
narration calmed him down temporarily and it gave me a momentary sigh of relief.
That was how my waist beads saved me
from being raped. But my life became miserable and I had to think of the way out of it, so that I would not die in a strange land.
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