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By Emmanuel Bagudu
…. marijuana sold and consumed on the spot
For those plying Abuja to Keffi at night and at dawn, ‘Wine Bar’ is not a strange name.
It’s a bar known with nocturnal activities involving alcohol, Drugs and prostitution.
TNG in its usual bid to gain more insight sent a reporter to the spot to find out more and was able to get details including some video recordings.
Alcohol and drugs like marijuana are the side attractions at Wine Bar.
Situated on Gbedoshan Plaza Abuja-Keffi expressway, New Nyanya Karu Local government area of Nassarawa state, Wine Bar has over the years become a serious nuisance to residents of New Nyanya as well as commuters . “we hardly sleep here because of music….” Okey a vulcanizer told TNG.
Unlike other drinking and relaxation spots Wine Bar uniquely operates dusk till dawn services. When other joints are closing that is when the bar begins operations.
From morning to afternoon the area looks like a casual shopping centre with boutiques and computer business centres operating normally like any other plaza.
But at night from 10pm the plaza transforms to a night club. Prostitutes begin to throng the area as well as other lovers of night life.
The smell of marijuana, shisha and cigarettes pollutes the entire area including the highway. Ironically a divisional headquarters of the Nigerian police force is just a stone throw from the place. One may wonder why the spot has enjoyed delivering nocturnal services considering the current insecurity challenges the Country is facing.
From 12midnight the music at wine bar becomes louder, young women of easy virtue seductively dressed appear from no where, some stay on the highway while others roam around the bar looking for prospective clients.
Rosemary is a call girl. She told TNG she works in a first generation bank and need to cool off after a hectic day’s job, as well as get a good paying client if any. “I am not cheap I have my job… if a client can’t pay me seven thousand naira (N7000) and above no show…. ” She said. It could be recalled that weeks ago TNG reported how some call girls in Abuja and Nassara state charge as low as five hundred naira (N500)or Alcohol and food for sex, but this is not the case at wine bar.
Call girls here are not cheap. The clients are not poor either. The bar is neighboring very cheap hotels and guest inn of different varieties.
The least place a call girl can accept to have sex is, in a client’s car. The hotels around are having a field day as clients immediately pick call girls and patronise them.
One fascinating and worrisome activity of the bar is the sake and consumption of marijuana. TNG attempted to call the Area Commander of the Police Divisional headquarters located just a stone throw to the bar, but the number was not reachable. As at the day this Investigation was being carried out, police hilux was seen patrolling the entire area for security surveillance while the young lads and their elderly counterparts are busy smoking and drinking in the middle of the night. “Dem don settle police tete….” a young man in early twenties told TNG in pidgin English, meaning “the police have been bribed”.
New Nyanya for sometime now has been suffering from activities of cult groups, armed robbers and bag snatchers for years but that has not stop the dusk till dawn operations of wine bar.
In mid 2019, cult groups held the entire area to ransom, residents remained indoors, but all thanks to members of the Special Anti robbery squad (SARS) who tamed the situation. It is to be feared however that the relative peace currently enjoyed by New Nyanya may not last owing to the activities in wine bar.
The security agencies may have to review whatever agreement they had if any with the operators to prevent possibilities of the night life spot turning into a sparkling dark fun world for men of the underworld.