Commercial sex workers in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Monday staged a candle light procession in honour of their colleague, who was allegedly killed by suspected ritualists.
The sex workers numbering about 50 wore black dresses, stormed the state secretariat of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta, on Monday night, wailing and mourning.
Their deceased colleague, who was identified as Sitira, was found dead at a refuse dump site at Olomoore junction in Abeokuta on Sunday morning.
Suspected ritualists were said to have abandoned the corpse of the 23-year-old prostitute after severing some flesh from her body.
The late Sitira was said to have been thrown off from a moving Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) along the Abeokuta-Lagos expressway.
Bearing candle sticks, they chanted various solidarity slogans and rained curses on the killers of their colleague.
They said, “Oro nla leda, oro nla leda, eyin tepa Titi, t’eje odagba, oro nla leda. Omo yin maku, eeeheee Omo yin maku, eyin tepa Titi t’eje odagba, omo yin maku” “You have done something grievous, you have done something grievous. The killers of Titi (Sitira) have done something grievous. Their children will die, their children will die, those that killed Titi will lose their children.”
The sex workers momentarily barricaded the NUJ secretariat and later departed for the MKO Abiola International Stadium, Kuto, Abeokuta where they continued their mourning.
Speaking with journalists, some of the prostitutes claimed that another colleague was killed by suspected ritualists with the late Sitira.
They said the mutilated remains of the sex worker was discovered in a ditch at Olomoore, Abeokuta.