African Waist Bead Saved Her From Being Raped In Lebanon

Rescued Lady Recounts How Waist Bead Saved Her From Being Raped In Lebanon Ms. Gloria Tayelolu Bright, a 33-year-old Nigerian lady rescued from slavery in Lebanon, has narrated how she spurn a false tale around her waist beads that saved her from being raped in the Asian nation.

 Gloria, a single mother of two children who hails from Eruku in Ekiti Council of Kwara State, had mistaken any trip abroad for “instant wealth and Eldorado”. While sharing some of her ordeal in Lebanon, she said; “When I bought my waist-beads some two years ago, I did so because of fashion. But do you know that the beads eventually saved me from the hands of those who lured me to the far Lebanon for slavery related endeavours?” “I was linked up by a fellow who facilitated my movement to Lebanon sometime in October last year. The fellow dangled before me a teaching job of English language if I would go, even though my academic qualification is Ordinary National Diploma (OND) in Accountancy. “There was no nexus between what I read and what I was being offered, but the desire to travel abroad overwhelmed my sense of reasoning as at the time in question. “The first thing I observed on getting there was the inclement weather condition. The cold was so much on my health that each time I coughed,

 I was throwing up blood-stained sputum with serious chest pains. Besides, rather than taking me to any school as a teacher as planned, I was subjected into a house help job, fetching water with heavy buckets from a distance location into the storey building apartment I was housed in. I was working like a slave, doing all sorts of menial jobs. ‘”To worsen my situation, my master started making advances towards me.

I tried all I could to ward him off, but he would not relent. I had to call him aside one day to let him know that no other man could sleep with me aside the one that gave me the waist bead. He dared me by asking me of the likely consequences of him having the affair with me,