Lady Accusing D’Banj Of Rape Releases A Press Statement

Lady Accusing D’Banj Of Rape Releases A Press Statement. About 15 000 have participated in a petition, asking the United Nations to remove D’Banj from being the United Nations’ Ambassador for Peace.

About 15 000 have participated in a petition, asking the United Nations to remove D’Banj from being the United Nations’ Ambassador for Peace. The petition also asked that the brands that are affiliated with D’Banj should end their relationship with the artist and stand in support of the victims of sexual violence. The alleged victim of sexual assault wrote a press statement in light of the matter.

The lady reported her issue at the Gender Desk at the Nigeria Police Force Lagos Command Headquarters, after she supposedly tried in the past to give a detailed account of what happened from her side at the Bar Beach police Station in Victoria Island on the 6th of June. However, her attempt wasn’t bwas supposedly blocked by an official at the police barracks. The lady went on to state that she was apprehended by four police officials that have pretended to be delivery agents, two weeks after she went public with her story. “I was locked up in a cell with criminals who had broken the law. I had never stolen or committed a crime in my life, yet there I was with other who had broken the law…My own offence was daring to speak,” says Ms. Seyitan Babatayo.

The lady says D’Banj got access to her hotel room past midnight, she was sleeping at time, and thus allegedly proceeded to violate her and sexually assault her on the 30th of December 2018. The statement continues to state that on the 15th of June 2020, the musician and his legal representation released a document responding to the lady. In the document, the artist asked for about R5 million in damages from her. She also says that on the 18th of June 2020 that she was forced and intimidated by D’Banj and his team to state that her testimony was a publicity stunt.

by Alexandra Ramaite