Marchisio Boateng
Nigerian lady, Seyitan Babatayo who accused D’banj of raping her after seeing top music star, D’Banj adding his voice to the fight against rape in Nigeria is in the news again.
Seyi as she is popularly known has been forced to delete her tweets that accused the Nigerian singer of the crimes labelled against him according to her lawyers.
Her lawyer, Olamide Omileye of Ojoge, Omileye and Partners told a Premium Newspaper newspaper in Nigeria that their client deleted the tweets under duress while in police custody on Tuesday.
According to him, Ms Babatayo was forced to post new tweets claiming that she was not arrested and that she wanted to move on from everything.
“They forced her to make those new tweets when she was in custody. They forced her to delete all her tweets and intimidated the hell out of her life,” he said.
Ms. Babatayo’s lawyers also said the issue has escalated beyond her expectations as she was only out “to speak her truth, tell her story so everybody can move on”.
“The girl has been so traumatised since she was released. She couldn’t believe it. When she was relating what happened to us yesterday, she was crying so much that.
“She said she slept in the same room, on the floor with criminals. She couldn’t believe that she was made to go through that by the Nigerian Police, just because she wanted to tell her own story,” they said.
The Lagos Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, did not pick calls to his mobile and had yet to reply to an inquiry on Ms Babatayo’s allegations as of press time.
The tweets might have been deleted but we still have screenshots of Seyi accusing D’banj of rape.
Source: premiumtimesng.com
