Harsh economic woes have a way of impacting on the social lifestyle of its citizens. While others buckle up and frontally face the challenges; others give in at the mere sound of impending loom. The latter seems to be the case for many silver spoon kids who have devised amoral means to float as the economic crises occasioned by the falling standard of Naira against dollars and pounds start to take its toll on them.
Most affected are young ladies of rich (or formerly well to do) families who school abroad. With hard-biting economic woes faced by Nigeria as a result of dwindling oil prices and naira fall in global market, parents ability to finance their wards has nosedived, as upkeep allowances have either been cut down considerably or are no more forthcoming. While the male wards have embraced menial jobs to cope with the situation, the female folks have resorted to selling their bodies in return for hard currency to keep up with their hitherto living in luxury.
This reporter had gone on an under-cover mission to a wave-making club, Steam bar inside the popular Hilton Paddington, London, which many have reported to be fast becoming a breeding ground for women of easy virtues. Findings showed, of a truth that the club does not parade prostitutes as blatantly as always witnessed in some areas in London, but deeper probe gave away the sordid acts of silver spoon kids in the club.
However, It is yet uncertain what exactly has gone wrong or where some hard working parents have failed or offended their own chi; but the truth is that the rate at which otherwise silverspoon kids are turning into prostitution for survival is alarming, troubling and unimaginable.
From Dubai to West London, Malaysia to Miami, South of France to South Africa and everywhere else in between, many silverspoon kids who used to make the society scene bend to their whims and wills, whose presence and carryings-on evoke anger at one’s poor parents, have found prostitution the easier route to making ends meet as funds seem to have dried up from their otherwise wealthy parents.
That is why you see them lurking in lounges and nite clubs, keeping to themselves but clinically scrutinizing patrons to discern the loaded ones to go home with.
They also are very wary of revealing their true identities to their Nigerian customers in order not to strike the chord of recognition. Unlike the average street girls, these silverspoon kids turned prostitutes are less obtrusive and classier; they are bringing a new refinement into the trade. This unwholesome trend has not gone unnoticed albeit.
And the reasons differ. Many posit that the systemic collapse of the Nigerian economy leading to the astronomic rise of foreign exchange have done many parents in, thereby drying up remittances to their wards abroad.
The spin-off of this was that the kids started selling off their paraphernalia to make ends meet. And when that also did not solve anything, they resorted to prostitution. Thus, when you are abroad next time, don’t be surprised that the young, well-spoken lady you are humping and bumping may be the daughter of the millionaire industrialist from your state.
