Pants sellers in Edo market laments; says female customers no longer patronize them

Miss Osasuwa, a 25-year-old shop orderly in Benin City, the Edo State capital presently goes to work without wearing jeans.

She said she never again wore jeans, particularly while going out, after the exercises of young fellows who participate in cash custom in the zone.

Osasuwa isn't the main female in Benin who has quit destroying pants while going, because of a paranoid fear of being compelled to expel it at gunpoint.

Day by day Trust on Sunday assembled that last month, a young fellow in his mid 20s was gotten with female and kids' jeans. It took the intercession of the police to protect him from group equity.

It was additionally accumulated that the young fellows began the demonstration by taking infants' spoils from dustbins, an advancement that constrained numerous ladies to begin consuming spoils after use.

It was further discovered that these young fellows moved on from taking children's spoils to female clothing for ceremonial purposes when spoils were not yielding much profit.

These frantic young fellows, it was assembled, would go to the degree of visiting individuals' homes to take female jeans. They likewise obstruct the expressways and desolate lanes around evening time, constraining young ladies to part with their clothing at gunpoint.

It was accumulated that while the individuals who take part in cash custom take pants straightforwardly, others take to pitch to imminent purchasers at extravagant costs.

Mr Isaac Ordia, who addressed our reporter on the improvement, said there were numerous episodes where young ladies were compelled to expel their jeans at gunpoint.

"In December a year ago, young fellows supposedly blocked Agbor street with firearms. When they ceased a vehicle, the tenants idea they were there to burglarize, however shockingly, they isolated the men from ladies and requesting that they pull their jeans and hand over to them. In the wake of gathering the undies, they zoomed off,''Ordia said. He included that the demonstration of taking jeans for custom reason began in Delta State yet quickly spread to Edo.

Our reporter additionally discovered that some bold young ladies figure out how to destroy pants while going, yet they apply charcoal on it, trusting that the substance kills the intensity of ceremonies.

It was additionally assembled that, having seen that young ladies never again wear pants, the individuals who participate in the demonstration depended on utilizing white hankies to clean the private parts female exploited people, likewise at gunpoint.