A sex worker, who failed to show up in court
last week Friday, caused a stir at the
Magistrate’s Court, Monday, when she could
not seduce the magistrate, who then ordered
her remanded at Afokang Prison, Calabar,
for jumping bail. The Bayelsa State-born sex worker,
Princess, was reportedly arrested alongside
her colleagues at the Moonshine Brothel,
located at Uwanse two weeks ago in the
wake of the clamp down on sex workers and
hoodlums, following rising crime wave in Calabar. She was reportedly brought before the
magistrate and granted bail, but when the
case came up for hearing last week Friday,
she failed to show up, prompting Magistrate
Joseph Ibi to order her arrest. It was learned
that police effected her arrest and took her to court on Monday to give reasons why she
did not show up in court on the day of
adjournment as requested by the
magistrate.
According to a police source said Princess,
who did not give any tangible reason for her failure to appear in court, started making
faces at the young magistrate, hoping that
the man might be carried away by her
beauty. However, the magistrate was infuriated by
her action and ordered that she be sent back
to Afokang to spend the public holidays. A clerk in one of the courts said: “No sooner
had the magistrate given the order than
Princess let out a full throated cry, grabbed
the magistrate’s legs and started pleading for
mercy. “She caused pandemonium in the
court hall and other adjoining courts as litigants and lawyers rushed out to find out
what was amiss, thinking that something
tragic had happened. “I thought somebody had been sentenced to
death for murder or related offence. She
was just playing the antics sex workers are
used to and nothing more.” At the end of her cry, she was calmed down
by her colleagues, who led her into the
waiting prison van and was taken to Afokang
Prisons as ordered by the magistrate. Vanguard
