| Anita Hogan curses
those behind pornographic pictures
By Azuh Amatus
Friday,
August 25, 2006
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Photo: Sun News Publishing |
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Nollywood actress, Anita Hogan, on Thursday broke her silence
on her published pornographic pictures, cursing those behind
the controversial publications. She promised to press legal
charges against those behind it.
"My lawyers are already taking the legal or conventional
and proper pre-action steps for me to get redress. The foregoing
is only ‘human’ step. The damages I have suffered
are irreparable. So, I shall continue to call on God to dratically
punish any person who tried to do evil against me in such
cruel manner, whereas I did not do any evil to such or any
person," the star participant in last year’s edition
of the Gulder Ultimate Search TV programme said amid tears
at a press conference in Lagos.
A Lagos-based evening newspaper and its sister publication,
a weekly news magazine, had published lurid shots of Hogan
and a whiteman. Owing to shock. Hogan claimed she
lost a three month pregnancy. She said she was a victim of
a syndicate of blackmailers who wanted to extort to money
from her.
She alleged that the obscene pictures, which, she claimed
were privately stored in her computer, were stolen, manipulated
and published after she refused to pay two million naira demanded
by the gang represented by one Emeka Nwankwo, who, along with
some accomplices, is now a guest of the police.
"Those publications were obscene, inglorious and repulsive.
It was a callous and unwarranted sadistic affront on Nigerian
womanhood. It was a most wicked falsehood. It was, for whatever
reason(s), calculated to negatively stigmatize my person and
portray me to be a prostitute who commercializes her body
and poses nude for white men. The publications were outrageously
irresponsible, immoral, unfounded, libelous and malicious.
It was an unnecessary invasion of my privacy, done with such
careless impunity," Hogan said.
She added: "I did not pose nude for any person or any
photographer.
I have never been known or reported or even suspected to have
been involved in any scandalous immorality. My consent was
not sought and or obtained before (or even after) the publication.
Oh my God! It was a criminal invasion of my fiance’s
privacy and mine. I suffered shock. I lost the three months
pregnancy I was carrying for my fiance, the white man. I was
cleaned up at the Military Hospital. Yaba, Lagos.
"The publication was apparently vexatious. Something
like: ‘O.K, you don’t want to settle, you will
regret your action.’ I refused to yield to blackmail
and then they contrived to publish the pictures, posted them
on Internet to severely punish me and to also make profit
from the sale of their papers.
"The culprits invaded my privacy.
The target was the white man. They could not locate the white
man, so, they turned to me and desperately tried to extort
money from me. I was unyielding, so they falsely attacked
and debased the collective morality of the Nigerian female
stars, particularly actresses, by obnoxiously publishing the
obscene pictures. They played on sentiments and made good
money from the sale of their papers and magazine."
She thanked Nigerians for their support, understanding, objective
criticism and interest, adding: "I also thank members
of both the electronic and print media for their ‘balanced’
presentation of this issue, even though the principal person
is ‘one of their one." |
