Commercial sex workers in Abeokuta, Ogun State Monday night held a candlelight procession for colleagues who were allegedly killed for rituals by unknown persons last weekend, according to a report by Vanguard.
Dressed in black and protected by the cover of the night, the women stormed the state secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Oke-Ilewo in agony over their dead colleagues.
The procession soon turned into protest as the women chanted solidarity songs and rained curses on those behind the deaths.
One of the dead was identified as Sitira, who was found dead at a refuse dump site at Olomoore junction in Abeokuta on Sunday morning.
The deceased was also known with names like Titi and Folake.
Suspected ritualists were said to have abandoned the corpse of the 23-year-old after cutting off parts her body.
She was said to have been thrown off a moving Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) along the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway.
Besides Sitira, the women claimed another colleague was killed by suspected ritualists.
They said the mutilated remains of the second sex worker were also discovered in a ditch in Olomoore.
Vanguard reported that about 50 commercial sex workers converged on the NUJ secretariat and nearby residence of former Head of Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan.
