HOW POVERTY AND FRUSTRATION ALMOST TURN ME INTO A PROSTITUTE- HILDA DOKUBO

HILDA DOKUBO

Renowned Nollywood actress, Hilda Dokubo,
has recounted how she roughly and carelessly 
lived her life as a young growing girl, and
how she almost took to prostitution out of
frustration following her father’s death.

The former Special Adviser on youth affairs
to Peter Odili, a former governor of Rivers State,
made this known in Lagos at the weekend
where she ministered as a Pastor at the Fresh
Oil International Church. She said some of her
past activities are unknown to many as she turned
her back on God and everything that mattered.

Dokubo said, “I was born with a silver spoon,
but death turned me poverty-stricken after my
father died when I was just nine.

“I turned away from God at that point, because
I felt disappointed that despite how much my
father loved and served God, he still died;
so after my dad died, my mother completely
lost her mind. If she were living in the US, I’m
sure she would have been diagnosed as a mental case.

“You know, in Nigeria, we don’t consider people
mad until they have started eating from dustbins.
I rebelled against God at that point, and I stopped
going to church at the age of nine. However,
I was a very brilliant girl, and I got admission
into the university at the age of 16.

“I became rascally and did what girls like that do.
I slept with a man, and I became pregnant.
It wasn’t the Holy-Spirit that impregnated me.
My mom was devastated and disappointed
in me because of that.

“I was also angry with her because ‘her God’
killed my father, and we stopped speaking to each other.

“One day, a man came to me and said he needed a barge.
I didn’t know what it was, and he told me it
was used to store oil. I then recalled that I
had once seen a barge in the compound opposite ours.

“I went to the neighbour and told him I needed the barge.
He asked me what I needed it for, but I told him not to worry.
I told them to put the barge in front of my mother’s house.

“At that point, the man who told me he needed the
barge came back, and dropped sacks of money
containing N2m with my mom because I was
in school at that time. Two weeks later, he
returned with N500, 000, and I was dumbfounded.

“Before then, I had never seen N100, 000 together,
but there I was as a millionaire at 17, not knowing
what to do with the money.

“Your life cannot change for the better if you
don’t challenge destiny. Even God challenged destiny.

“I would have become a prostitute, but
I became restless and challenged destiny,
” the actress added.