{"id":6508,"date":"2024-08-10T15:03:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T15:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/10\/nigerian-police-investigate-killing-of-trans-tiktoker-abuja-area-mama\/"},"modified":"2024-08-10T15:03:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T15:03:50","slug":"nigerian-police-investigate-killing-of-trans-tiktoker-abuja-area-mama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/10\/nigerian-police-investigate-killing-of-trans-tiktoker-abuja-area-mama\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian police investigate killing of trans TikToker Abuja Area Mama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clzmv9hvk000viyp71l917g6f@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Police in the Nigerian capital Abuja are investigating the killing of a trans TikToker known as Abuja Area Mama after her body was found beside a highway.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clzmxnrsw00053b6kw0q3t3su@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            On TikTok, where she identified as female and openly described herself as a sex worker, Abuja Area Mama styled herself as a \u201ccross-dresser and queen of the street.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clzmxnrsw00033b6khr7368a3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            A police spokesperson in the city, Josephine Adeh, said in a statement that \u201can unidentified lady was seen lying motionless along Katampe &#8211; Mabushi expressway\u201d on Thursday and \u201cpreliminary investigations revealed that the individual was a man fully dressed in female clothing with no means of identification on him.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clzmxnrsw00073b6k1jmptqek@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Same-sex relations are banned in Nigeria and gay and trans people often face harrasment.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clzmxnrsx00083b6kjylr6fc4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Abuja Area Mama had previously faced attacks and harassment. In a recent video on social media, she described being stabbed by an unidentified man.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clzmxnrsx00093b6k3anju7qh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            A day before her body was found, she made a post on Instagram saying she was \u201cgetting ready to go and see my boyfriend.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clzmxnrsx000a3b6kv9pttcnw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Abuja Area Mama was candid about the risks of being a sex worker.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clzmxnrsx000b3b6kwkvebora@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cYou could leave home at night to hustle and not return the next morning,\u201d she said while featuring as a guest on a YouTube podcast four months ago.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in the Nigerian capital Abuja are investigating the killing of a trans TikToker known&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}