"Anything the whiteman does, most Nigerians will begin to do, whether good or bad. How can somebody just sit down and you begin to draw tattoo on your body?

"It means that you do not like the way God created you and you want to add to it by designing tattoo on your body.

I see it as an immoral act.

"It is a satanic thing, it makes you look dirty physically and spiritually," she said.

Mr. Monday Erabor, a businessman and a parent, simply prayed not to catch any of his children wearing tattoo, and said, "Hell will be let loose for any of them that tries it."

Mr. Austin Orhue, a tattoo designer in Benin, described his business as a successful one, adding that tattoo had become a fashion in Nigeria and the world.

Orhue said tattoos add value to the skin of wearers.

Source:Punch