April 24, (THEWILL) – Big Brother Africa reality show star, Uti Nwachukwu, has revealed how he dealt with a rape allegations against him by a Twitter user, Kambili Korie.
In 2020, Korie had in a thread accused the reality star, whom she claimed she met in 2017 of raping her.
In an interview with media personality, Chude Jideonwo, Nwachukwu said seeking the opinion of lawyers and involving the police helped him to address the case.
He wanted to ignore the allegations at first, but was forced to take action after it went viral on blogs.
“The luck I had was that it was a troll account. When I saw it, I just said I’m not taking this because I have learnt to ignore all those things, but I was so disappointed when I saw blogs feasting on it.
“I hate the fact that I had to go to those length to prove it was a lie.
That’s one of the ills of the social media. I would have ignored if it were to be other things, but because rape is such a huge allegations, I went about it in a legal way.
“It was one of the moments where I had to consult my very good friend. With my trusted circle, I was able to get different takes. I spoke with my lawyer and at every point, he would tell me what to say.”
Nwachukwu also revealed that the rape allegations taught him to always exercise caution when associating with people.
“That experience is like God telling me, ‘you need to be careful who you associate with’. That was just an internet robot, imagine if it’s a real human being. We tried to find the person, but the person closed the account and ran away.
“I filed a police report and they started working on it, but the person was using a VPN, so locating the face behind the account was a task. I’m glad it turned out that way because it made it easy for me to prove my innocence.”
