Daniel
Okereke, the older brother of actress Stephanie Linus who was alleged to
have raped a UNILAG student on Nov 6th ahs released a statement in response Find the statement below...
It took me a while to react to these baseless allegations about my good self because I had to investigate to know if it was truly me they were referring to or someone was impersonating me. I wouldn’t have responded but for the numerous innocent readers who may have been misled by this untrue publications which was never verified before going public. I thought that balanced reportage had to do with getting both sides of the story. What happened between me and my estranged friend was a case of a woman who claimed she was heartbroken because she discovered I am in a very serious relationship. Continue reading....
She flared up when she realized and started demanding
that I must settle her since I was not taking her seriously not to talk of marrying
her. She demanded for two million naira (N2m) and a Toyota Yaris car as
settlement else she would scandalize my name and that I know I wouldn’t want
that since according to her I come from a popular and wealthy background. I
took it as one of those empty threats until I now read about this complete sham
about my good self.
How can someone say you were beaten up by seven (7) guards
before canal knowledge of you prevailed? Someone who claimed she was sick? She
must be a female wrestler in the WWE (The World Wrestling Entertainment) for
such measures to be required before a strong tall guy like me will need to
force her to have canal knowledge of her. Someone who claimed she was raped
could also muscle out strength to destroy my properties in front of the so
alleged seven guards? If I were a nobody would she be priding in saying I
allegedly raped her? I know that the thought of possessing me is your dream but
you didn’t need to go this shameless way.
Those that may have advised you to do
this (if any) gave you the worst advice ever because you can’t have me through
cheap blackmail. Let me make it crystal clear that there was never a case of
rape nor assault. I have decided not to reveal more shocking details on this
sad episode because her family initiated peace moves towards mine and I
strongly believe in the biblical saying “to err is human but to forgive is
divine”. In a country where people can use some sections of the media to
publish unverified stories of even the highest offices in the land, then who am
I to bother if such crude treatment is meted out to a rising star like me. Must
we continue to destroy our very best because we have a very few media platforms
that are willing tools to be used. This is sad and unkind.
Why will they want to bring in a respected
elder stateswoman Prof. Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, OON, into an issue where the
alleged accused is an adult who should take full responsibility of his actions
and in-actions. A woman who worked tirelessly day and night to develop the
Nigerian Capital Market and by extension the Nigerian economy which in turn put
food on the tables of millions of Nigerians and beyond. During her tenure as
the DG of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, the Capital Market was bountiful and
prospered as never before. She is an institution in this country and should
please not be dragged into trivial issues like this. She should be respected as
such.
Thank you all for doing so.
I appeal to those sections of the
media that publish unverified stories to please verify before going public because
they have the tools to make or mar peoples’ images. I hope that all the
respected media sources that publicized this untrue story will be kind enough
to do a retraction. God bless you as you do so. I thank all those that called
me and sent text messages and said we know you did not do those things. I also
thank those who do not know me that said negative things about me, and the
reasons are obvious – they do not know me. My humble advice to them is not to
thrive on hearsay but facts because it is me today; no one knows whose turn it
might be tomorrow. Thank you for reading. God bless us all and Merry
Christmas.a
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