The director of Anambra state broadcasting service, Mr Uche Nworah replied to the allegation rendered by miss Anambra 2015, that she was pressured into making the leaked lesbian sex Video by the organiser of the pageant. according to Stargist, Chidinma Okeke had, in an interview with Nation alleged that the organisers were behind the blackmail video
There is an Igbo saying that the more you repeat a lie, at some point people may begin to believe that it is the truth.
On this former Miss Anambra sex scandal, the management of the
Anambra Broadcasting Service had previously released a press statement
disassociating the organisation from it. We still stand on that
statement.
We have also made statements on the matter to the law enforcement
authorities. We understand that Miss Chidinma Okeke has also made
statements to the law enforcement authorities so we eagerly await their
findings.
It is however important that I correct certain statements that
are being made on this forum and in other fora especially concerning the
interview Miss Chidinma Okeke
granted the Nation newspaper today. There
appears to be an agenda to push falsehood to the public and in so doing
malign me and the Anambra Broadcasting Service over a matter that we
know nothing about. It appears that our silence over the matter, except
the press statement we issued earlier is now being exploited by those
who are bent on using the Miss Anambra sex scandal to settle political
scores in Anambra state.
It would also appear that Miss Chidinma Okeke has become a pawn in a larger politically motivated conspiracy.
The ABS as a socially responsible organisation fulfilled to the
letter every part of the contract signed with Miss Chidinma Okeke,
former Miss Anambra. This includes paying ALL her prize money of the sum
of one million Naira only. This was paid in installments in line with
the contract. An initial sum of N500,000 was paid to her after she
signed her contract and the balance of N500,000 was paid in N50,000 installments over a 10 month period.
She collected her last installment of N50,000 on the 11th of
October 2016, the day she handed over the crown to the organisers. We
have records of her signing for all the payments. We had to take the
measure of inviting the former Miss Anambra to the office on this date
as that was the day an anonymous individual had forwarded the videos to
myself and some other persons I do not know accusing the former queen of
being a lesbian. The person said he was in possession of such similar
videos numbering over 10 allegedly showing the former queen in lesbian
acts, as well as her friends in the lesbian video performing sexual acts
with men. Details of these WhatsApp messages have been made available
to the law enforcement authorities. We took this decision as we did not
want the brand to be smeared with such a scandal as contained in Clause 1
of the contract.
After the handover of the crown by Miss Chidinma Okeke to the
Miss Anambra project executives in the presence of the ABS management in
the office of the ABS MD/CEO, I dismissed all the other members of the
management with the exception of the ABS lawyer and one of the Miss
Anambra project executives. I went on to show Miss Chidinma Okeke the
videos I had received that day from the anonymous individual and the
messages from the person, I then asked her if she had any knowledge of
the video and she said yes. I advised her to go home and confide in her
family. I have not seen nor spoken to her since that day as I do not
know her whereabouts.
Miss Chidinma Okeke was not forced to sign the contract under
duress as alleged, rather a certain Nwakonobi Ifeanyi who is married to
her sister and acting as her guardian co-signed with her after they had
taken the contract home, studied and consulted over it.
As a respectable pageant, we have certain rules and regulations
guiding participation in the pageant and conduct of the queen during her
reign.
The Miss Anambra Beauty Pageant platform is indeed a wonderful
one. There is nothing wrong with the pageant. We have had winners and
participants on the platform who have gone on to do big things in their
lives and modelling careers. The pageant is solely private sector
funded. The state government does not sponsor the pageant so please do
not believe the false story that the Anambra state government spends
millions of Naira sponsoring the pageant.
If you live in Awka or Anambra state, you will confirm that it is
usually a big event which generates a lot of excitement and buzz. As an organization, the pageant generates entertainment content and some
revenue for the ABS.
From the audition to the final event itself, the contestants are
treated with the highest respect, courtesy and dignity. They sign a
document detailing dos and donts and pledge to be of good conduct and behavior both during camp and during the reign of the eventual winner.
In the past, the organizers have had to dismiss some finalists from camp
for misconduct, one for giving her number out to a hotel guest where
they are camped and another for being rude to fellow contestants and the
chaperon.
The pageant is judged to the highest standard. The judges are
usually former acclaimed national beauty queens and showbiz
personalities. The pageant overall is managed by a Pageant Creative
Director who is a former Miss Nigeria. We take every care to ensure that
we deliver a good show every year.
There are no preconditions of appearing in a sex video to contest
in the Miss Anambra pageant. We have had hundreds of contestants on the
pageant and they can testify to that. It makes no sense to try to blame the organisers over an act that is as a result of one’s folly and greed. If
perhaps the said Miss Chidinma Okeke fell victim to conmen who tricked
her into believing that she will win a beauty pageant if she appears in a
sex video, if she goes ahead and participates in the said video and the
conmen turn around to blackmail her and extort money from her with the
sex video, how can I or the ABS be blamed for that? Did the other
participants and contestants on the show suffer the same fate?
Regarding the issue of the Miss Anambra vehicle, in line with
clause 10 of the contract, the vehicle is an official car which the
organisers reserve the right to withdraw at the end of the queen’s
reign. It does appear that the issue of the car is what concerns the
former queen the most as statements to the media by her father, and even
text messages to me and discussions from people from her camp suggest
so but clearly as can be seen from the contract, the ABS acted as per
contract signed.
It is obvious that those who have been at the forefront pushing
this falsehood and allegation that I, Uche Nworah or the ABS has
anything to do with this have ulterior motives.
In this day and age of social media, it is now easy for anybody
to manufacture falsehood and post on social media for the unsuspecting
public to read, like and share but in the end truth triumphs.
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