Mystery: A Mad Woman, A shoe Seller And An Ashawo In The City Of Abuja.

Tormenting words common among insane persons show in the character of a black, tall lady who is likely to be in her late twenties. Maria, as she is called, is single with no family; at least nobody claims to be related to her. She lives under a tree situated at a junction on Arab Road, Kubwa, Abuja. She speaks Yoruba and Hausa fluently. She has black pixie hair and displays her wares- second hand clothes and shoes. Wherever she bought the wares from to sell is a story for another day.
She sits beside her wares waiting for buyers till the evening time when she neatly packs and covers the wares preparatory for her club runs. She changes her dress and goes to club to return the following morning. It is a routine.

Whenever she needs anything, she remembers to stroll down to a nearby kiosk to buy, and does not forget to pay for the item which is packaged for her in a polythene bag and then she quietly strolls back.She probably is not mad was a debate among neighbors of the suspected mentally unstable woman.
The debate caught the attention of this reporter who was passing by and stopped to listen to the group of five, comprising three men and two women arguing over the mental status of the woman. ‘She can’t really be mad’, one of them said.  ’No. She is a mad woman’, another responded. ‘What kind of mad woman would go clubbing every night and return the following morning?’.
Prostitution in Abuja is a business that has been redefined and made more sophisticated; with practitioners adapting to the times and deploying all that information, communication and technology can offer to boost their trade. But the induction of mad women into the business if this is what Maria goes to the club to do will be a mystery.
Commercial sex workers in Abuja, like their counterparts in Maitama, Garki and other towns in the Federal Capital City, FCT, have embraced new techniques to optimize their business.
Wonders are just beginning.