For those of you that haven’t heard or that don’t really know
the ins and outs of this story let me fill you in. Basically Lotanna aka
Sugabelly claims that the son of the recently deceased governor of Kogi state
Mustafa Audu, raped her repeatedly and got his friends and brother to rape her
too when she was 17 over a period of time. She gives a detailed account of the
various incidents with names of her alleged abusers. Her account is pretty
graphic but has holes in my opinion. I couldn’t help getting a sense that
something was missing from her story. I found it very difficult to identify
with her or see her as a victim. Firstly she never said that she was held
against her will and she kept coming back. She claims she kept coming back
because he threatened to release kinky pictures of her naked and videos of her
being raped. But this was back in 2007 and as far as I remember back then it
wasn’t that easy to upload and share things on social media, but I guess if one
was determined they could make it happen.
I don’t think this story is black and white. I also cannot understand why
she went about it the way she did with all this media frenzy.
I don’t know what to make of the story. Is it a young girl
trying to make a name for herself at the same time as exacts revenge on the guy
who jilted her or is it a young man trying to cover up the fact that he took
advantage of a young messed up girl’s infatuation with him.
I think lots of people are as confused as me because the
petition calling for justice for her has only received 170 signatures even with
all the coverage.
Decide for yourself
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