Right in the center of Jos Metropolis at the popular Old Airport Junction is a one-storey building called Nana Plaza. The building houses some shops downstairs, while the top floor hosts offices, including a law firm.
Nana Plaza could be described as an unimposing building, with the tenants engaged in legitimate businesses. However, behind the plaza is an open space, about one plot where other business ventures take place, including food canteens and beer parlours where one can get quick meals and bottles of alcoholic drinks to wash down.
But all the legitimate businesses wind up with the close of day and as night falls, Nana Plaza takes another life of its own. A different form of business takes over. The front of the plaza becomes home for dealers of roasted fish, chicken, dog, and pork meat sellers.
Added to the brisk business ventures are a group of young men, popularly called “Michika Boys” who sell cigarettes, hot drinks, and illicit drugs under the cover of darkness.
Those activities would pass as ordinary businesses where the sellers eke out a living. But behind Nana Plaza is another world. As early as 8pm, the open space becomes a den of the age-long skin trade where teenage prostitutes hold sway trading their bodies for money.
The prostitution ring that unfolds at the Plaza, with some as young as 14 years.
The prostitution ring starts as early as 8 and runs till the early hours of the next day.
DAILY POST correspondent went
