Prostitutes in Cameroon have resorted to
other methods. This is as a result of the fact that the long established method
of tradition of waiting for the costumers is no longer yielding the required
income. Apart from wearing very revealing and sexy dresses free women have
decided to invest a little more on the business. It is very common to see some
of them
Leaving
the Mortuary with Mercenary Tears.
Many free women now attend funeral
ceremonies of people they have never known just to have the opportunity of
meeting with well-to-do costumers and or make new catches. They start at the
mortuary while family members, friends and well-wishers of the deceased are
busy with corpse removal. In Nigeria for example, they are known as the “area
girls”, but here we name the professional mourners. Meet one of them at a
funeral; the first attraction is that they are either making or fun of
receiving very long imaginary phone calls. The essence of this is to attract
the attention of mostly the “bush fallers” or new catches whom they are
targeting.
It is worth noting that these
prostitutes dress to kill, expensive black dresses, high heel shoes, sparkling
earings and lipsticks with expensive perfume to complete the sophisticated
make-up. They also carry large “go-no-come bags” in which they have other
dresses and toilet requirements. They are called “go-no-come bags” because the
owner leaves ready to spend the night elsewhere quite commonly in hotels or
elsewhere their costumers would like to sleep with them. Besides, these free
women who include students and jobseekers whose parents and guardians no longer
provide their basic needs talk-less of enabling them acquire expensive gadgets,
like smart phones, I-pads, laptops etc. They are present in churches where the
requiem mass or service holds. There they don’t only take active part in the
singing and dancing, they also go for offertory as many times, as possible
dropping mainly yellow coins into the offertory basket in a bid to seek notice
(attract attention of would-be costumers).
During receptions, they are uncommonly
active, serving mourners but doing so selectively. Their favourite mourners are
always the well-to-do including bush fallers, business magnets and top civil
servants. Thanks to their ability to wear seductive smiles, they end up with a
telephone number of their targeted victim. Those who succeed end up into new
jobs, travel abroad and or even marriage while the unfortunate ones return home
with a well stocked purse or with a full stomach. Another latest innovation that is paying and
paying these women very well is the
Prostitution
in Buses
This is a common strategy used by some
free women in pursuit of making new catches. This is very common with
prostitutes in Douala and Yaounde. These prostitutes usually with well
manicured nails and very sexily dressed pay their fares, after ensuing that her
seat is as near as possible to that of somebody they know is very rich. Some of
them have eyes of hawk when it comes to detecting a rich man. While the bus is
moving, she engages in a swift conversation. The last time I traveled from
Bamenda to Buea, I discovered that the couple infront of me had just met that
day. The lady was so drunk to the point that she spent the journey crying and
vomiting. She must have caught a good catch and ended up sucking her in whisky.
As we got to Buea, she immediately disappeared with her new catch. She had
struck a good deal with him. Quite often she goes back home with a good chunk
of money and the phone number of her new catch. While some have developed these
new skills, others have turn to
Pick
Pockets
This is the most recent strategy
developed by women with hardened consciences to fleece men of their hard earned
FCFA. Since men no longer dip their hands into their pockets often or readily
enough, criminal minded women have resolved to remove the money themselves. Of
late, I witnessed a scene in Nkambe that kept me wondering. Two young girls had
landed in the town and two young guys wanted to pull a smart one. The girls immediately
asked for FCFA 5000 each. After
concerting, one of the guys said he had money and home. Upon return, his
partner of the day was standing by the door. She immediately dips her hands
into his pocket and removed all the money. Being a married man, the young man
went on his knees but the girl said she would prepare her “come-no-bag before
coming back to hand back his money. Few minutes later, the young man was
shocked to hear that the girls had left for Ako.
A “clando” driver on the Ndop-Bamenda
road recounted how a beautiful girl working with male accomplices boarded his
car one day from Ndop. She had tactfully chosen the front seat where sat the
old man. This man had just withdrawn the sum of FCFA 300.000 from a financial
institution. The young woman had carefully monitored him. The driver who
suspected what the girl was up to and fearing dire consequences tried to
caution the elderly man through signs. But the expert prostitute was smarter.
With a mellifluous voice accompanied by frequent smiles and caresses carefully
engrossed the attention of the man.
Having failed to bring the man to reason
the driver advised him to drop at Bambui giving excuse the police control post
at mile 6 about 2 kilometers ahead. But the now lovesick old man rejected the
advice arguing that he had paid his full fare. Rather it was the prostitute
that opted to drop after accomplishing her mission and giving Pa a fake
telephone number. Her mate equally dropped. It was only at Mobile Nkwen where
his journey ended that he realized that his FCFA 300.000 had disappeared. It
was then that the driver explained to him that he had done everything to make
him understand that the girl was a pick pocket. But in many cases drivers are
always accomplices with the pick pockets. From every indication, women like
expert hunters have learnt “to shot without missing men” reasons why men have
to learn like “birds to fly without missing” through non-stop vigilance.
(First published in The Independent Observer)
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. (The 2014 Bloggies Finalist)
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