| NAKED!
Actress nude pictures jolt Nollywood, media
By BIYI ADEGOROYE
Saturday,
August 19, 2006
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• Anita
Hogan
Photo: Sun News Publishing |
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A Lagos-based cub reporter, who allegedly demanded N5m gratification
from Anita Hogan in exchange for her nude photographs and
six others have been arrested by the police in Lagos. Also
in police net in connection with the crime is a computer engineer.
Detectives from the Lagos State Criminal Investigations Department
(SCID), Panti, and Yaba, picked the suspects at different
parts of the city a couple of days ago following a petition
written to the police by the counsel to the victim.
The arrest came just as there were indications that the publication
has left Anita very dejected and wounded psychologically,
leading her to develop an abhorrence for men.
Her associates claim the nude publication considered an intrusion
into his privacy, would not only portend evil for her relationship,
but her public image.
Police sources said that following their arrest, the suspects
who included a computer engineer have made statements in respect
of their involvement in the scandalous publication.
They were held for blackmail and obtaining money under false
pretences.
While the computer engineer allegedly released the nude pictures
to two newsmen following the discovery during a routine repair,
the journalist allegedly cashed in on the situation and demanded
the sum of N5m from Anita to enable him ‘kill’
the story.
All plea by Anita that the publication of the nude photographs
taken with her fiancée and stored in his lap-top computer,
would have dangerous effect on her life and relationship,
were rebuffed by the collaborators.
On the other hand, Anita was said to have silenced the other
journalist, after parting with N300, 000. But the suspect
now in police cell allegedly insisted on N5m, stating the
newspaper sales would be higher than that upon publication.
When the police got wind of his request for N100,000, they
asked Anita to play along and arrangment was made for Emeka
to meet with Anita at Military Hospital Yaba, where she was
receiving treatment. There, he was arrested by detectives
when he moved to collect the money from Anita’s car.
Emeka later assisted the police to arrest the journalist along
with the rest collaborators All the collaborators have spent
over four days in police cell. Top police sources confirmed
the report.
Porn mess ruins Anita’s marriage
It is now double trouble for Anita Hogan as his impending
marriage heads for the rocks even as she has lost her three-month-old
pregnancy following the publication of her porn photographs
with her foreign boyfriend.
Sources said her secret love with the white guy which came
to the open had badly affected her relationship with her real
finance.
A petition written by Anita’s lawyer, Mr. Tony Dania
of Dania and Associates, to the Deputy Commissioner of Police
SCID, Lagos, actually admitted that the pictures in circulation
were those of the actress but stressed that they were Anita’s
private pictures with her fiance, stolen and doctored to suit
the purpose of blackmail.
“The aforesaid publication is a criminal invasion of
our client’s privacy. From the story the suspects published,
it was obvious that there was blackmail and attempts to extort
money from our client. They stole some of our clients’
pictures, used the computer to improvise and superimpose further
images on them, called our clent and demanded for money.
“The white man in the published pictures is a true resemblance
of Anita’s fiance who works in a very decent organisation.
In fact, they have done the pre-marriage formal introduction.” |
