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Professor and Vice Chancellor Chigozie Asiabaka has expressed shock after learning that the university he helps oversee is being overrun by prostitutes and gambling entities.
Asiabaka already knew that gambling had become an issue at Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO). The activity is already the third fastest business in Nigeria, where this university is based.
Naij.com launched an investigation into what is going on within FUTO, a highly regarded university referred to once as a “citadel of genius” and around its environs, and what was discovered is beyond troubling.
The investigation notes:
As with the way vices go, one doesn’t go without the other, so prostitution followed where gambling went. There used to be whore houses back in the days, but they were situated far off in town where most students could not locate, even if they tried. Then, one had to really be desperate, as to go on such quest, and will only be lucky to find such comfort homes with the help of a local. However, it is not so now, virtually every village encamped around FUTO has two brothels. Investigations have shown that there are two whorehouses in Ihiagwa, two in Eziobodo, one major brothel in Umuchima and about three others along Obinze; all close to the dwelling places of FUTO students. Further investigations reveal that FUTO students patronize these brothels night after night, it is even more troubling to note that the prostitutes also live within the hostels were students dwell. The stay home while some of the students go for lectures and come out at night for business. Some students are said to patronize them at the hostels were they dwell for as low as N500.
The honours is on the parents to take a deeper look into the affairs of their young ones in the higher institution, Naij.com advises, noting that the houses of ill-repute continue to pop up at an alarming state.
- Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com
