How Pastor lured me into Prostitution – Church Singer

By Eric Patrick

A 24-year-old girl yesterday painted a sordid picture of
how a pastor she fellowshipped with at the Heavenly
Ambassadors’ Ministries Inc. lured her into prostitution.

Florence (surname withheld), a former stylist, 
dancer and singer while with the church located at Isihor on the busy Benin-Lagos Expressway in Ovia North East Local
Government Area of Edo State, said she was tricked while
she was 18 years old by Pastor Endurance Eghoze to
travel to meet his sister based in Russia with the hope 
of assisting her to look for a greener pasture overseas but
ended up in the web of street hawkers there.

Florence said she worked tirelessly for four years
 (2013 to 2017) to pay an agreed sum of $45,000 (about N17.1 million) to her ‘Madam’ and trafficker, Ms. Vivian Eghoze, who later dumped her on the streets of Russia 
before she was deported home in February.

Already, operatives of the state police command 
have arrested Vivian and her brother, Endurance.

The arrest was made possible following a tip-off by an
Edo-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), 
Initiative for Youths Awareness on Migration, Immigration,
Development and Reintegration (IYAMIDR).

When contacted, the state Police Public Relations 
Officer (PPRO), DSP Moses Nkombe, confirmed their 
arrest.

He said: “The matter is being investigated by the police.”

Florence, who has been reunited with her family, is
begging for urgent assistance from good-spirited
individuals and government.

She told the ERICGOSSIP after paying her ‘madam’ the 
huge sum, she is also battling to save herself from a mysterious ailment.

Vivian and Endurance have allegedly trafficked over 
45 girls for prostitutions overseas.

The victims said they were daily subjected to excruciating
conditions in cold of the nights to meet customers without
anything to show for their years of enslavement.

According to them, even their parents and relations 
wallow in hunger, poverty and emptiness except for the 
lavish lifestyles of their hosts and their exotic cars and eye-
pooping mansions.

Florence explained that her trouble started in late 2012
when her mother amid cries and wailing narrated her
 plight of being locked in huge debt to their pastor, who is
 also the second in command of the church, who quickly cashed in on the ugly situation to convince her to join his sister in Russia.

According to the ERICGOSSIP, She added that a few days before she travelled to Lagos to meet Vivian’s close 
relations, her mother who was in Benin compelled her 
to take an oath of secrecy after collection of her pubic
 hair, pants and braziers while ‘madam’s uncle also raped
 her in a hotel room where she was lodged preparatory for Russia and sternly warned her not to tell anyone about the illicit act.

She said: “I had to borrow money to do my passport. She
keeps calling and assuring me that all will be well. I was
made to take oath of allegiance.

“I borrowed N30,000 from a cooperative society,
 to do my passport and I told her (Ms Vivian) that my
 passport was ready and she said okay. And from there I proceeded to another level at which she called Endurance 
that tfrom would be the ones to run everything and that my mind should be at rest. After some weeks, she called 
me again and gave me words of encouragement. 
That was how we ended our talk.”