Popular Nigerian actress and media personality, Omotunde Adebowale-David, also known as Lolo 1, has levelled allegation of rape against an unnamed popular broadcaster.
Lolo claimed this on her podcast “Say My Piece”, which was posted on YouTube on Friday.
The said incident, the popular thespian stated, happened six years ago, and according to her, it has been her source of trauma.
She declared that revealing the rapist’s identity would draw her public opprobrium.
“I hardly ever say this, and I am not even ready to tell the full story. The stories of sexual assault. When I discussed it with my daughter yesterday, she held my hand and said, ‘Mummy, you’ve gone through so much.’ And I said I had.
“I remember how many of those things I have to relive. I have been raped only once in my life, and I was raped by a colleague. I see him every other day. Do you know how traumatized I am? When I see him, I just get into this momentary panic.
“But if a woman of my calibre named him, he’s an established person in the broadcast industry, won’t people say, ‘How come I didn’t speak about it for all these six years until now that he’s taking a prominent TV position?’
“When sexual assault happens to women, the first thing to happen is denial. The next thing is self-blaming,” she said.
