Teenage prostitutes have taken over Nana House in Jos where underage girls are struggling to survive the economic onslaught in the country.
Our medium reports that Asmack, in the centre of Jos Metropolis at the popular Old Airport Junction, is a nondescript one-storey building called Nana House.
The building houses some shops and stores downstairs while the top floor hosts offices, including a law firm.
Nana House could be described as an unimposing building, where 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 these seemingly legitimate businesses wind up with the close of day.
As night falls, Nana House takes another life of its own as another 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 House is another world where another form of life takes over.
As early as 8 pm, 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 Nana House, especially with the young girls involved, with some as young as 14 years old, is a troubling reality, one that many would prefer to ignore, but which can no longer be swept under the carpet.
