•Failure to implement the law has emboldened them – Lawyer
By Emmanuel Unah
Recently, a major leisure outfit along the Murtala Mohammed Highway way Calabar, the Cross River State capital was swarmed by a deluge of female guests. Every room was taken up by these “guests” who frolicked in the swimming pool, bars, and barbecue spots.
Many residents of the city were taken aback by the presence of these ladies of all shades and colour who besieged the city. It did not take long before credible sources on the grapevine revealed that the visitors were lesbians who came from across the country for a three-day conference.
Some days ago as churches held vigil prayer sessions to welcome the last month of the year before the Christmas month, in one of those churches, while worship and praise was going on, a tall fair complexioned lady walked into the church auditorium and took the back seat. After several minutes, one of the worshippers looked back and upon sighting the new entrant seated at the back, she breached all caution and dashed to the back.
The two were locked in a long embrace and other worshippers had to wonder what the two were doing. Not long after the embrace, they strolled out of the church.
Those are regular scenes in the streets of Calabar, schools, work places, homes as woman to woman love birds engage in show of open affection.
Narrating her experience and escapades as a lesbian, Ekaiquo, a dark skinned vocal lady said she was initiated into the practice by a senior secondary school mate. “I attended an all female secondary school in Calabar. Though the school had boarding facilities, I went to school from the house. Sometimes on foot and sometimes I took taxi. One weekend, while in JSS3, a senior student invited me to her birthday party. I got there late.
People where eating and some drinking when I got there. When the girl celebrating the birthday saw me as I stepped into the parlour, she was very excited. She rushed and embraced me tightly. She took me straight into her room. The bed was covered in clean sheets, flowers placed all over the room and bed. She brought me food and shortly after I finished eating, the girl came close to me, made me lie on the bed and gently robbed her hands all over my body.
She touched my sensitive parts and I did not resist. I felt she must have added something to the juice I drank. My head was floating above my body and as I began to respond, she tore off my pants and with her fingers and tongue went after my breast and private part. This went on for a long time and people in the parlour started wondering what we were doing inside the room. They came to knock but she did not open. We were there till about 8.00 pm when she opened the door. I laid in bed and couldn’t move.
She had to call one of her father’s drivers to take me home. She gave me some money. For days, I couldn’t go out of the house. My mom asked why I was walking clumsily but I did not tell her. I treated my body of the bruises with warm water. After that , our meeting became fairly regular until she saw me with another lady and she stopped calling me.
“When word goes round the lesbian circle your abilities in the use of the tongue and fingers, you become hot cake and married women, girls, ladies would start calling your number”.
She said she was into lesbianism for years until she finished school before getting engaged in male- female relationships
