Victor Thompson, a gospel musician best known for his hit song “This Year,” has revealed that he used to sell cannabis and booze to sex workers. Victor Thompson spoke out to Chude Jideonwo about his experiences selling marijuana and alcohol to s3x workers as a way of survival after losing both parents at the age of 12, as well as his miraculous transformation story.
The gospel artist detailed his daily hardships, such as working numerous jobs to make money meet. According to him, during the day he sold sachet water on the streets, and at night he managed a little shop near a brothel, selling beer, marijuana, and cigarettes to prostitutes.
In his words:
“At a time, I was selling alcohol, weed, cigarettes, and hawking pure water. In the morning and afternoon time, I did vulcanizing, shoe-making and hawked pure water but at night go back to my shop which was close to a brothel to sell alcohol, weed, and cigarettes. Most of my customers were the prostitutes.
“I lost my parents when I was between 12 and 14. My dad passed first, I think I was 10 or thereabout. When my dad died, my aunties threw us out of our dad’s house. We didn’t have a place to sleep. God so good, a carpenter was so kind and gave us an empty land to sleep. It’s a bush so at ni
