Reactions
continue to trail the sex videos involving known married women and
teenage girls circulating Jos the Plateau State capital for few weeks
now.
Newsmen reports that videos involved different girls and
women being filmed by a cameraman and a producer/director who initially
interviewed them, before stripping them naked and having sex with them
on camera.
And upon circulation of the videos, some of those
involved could no longer stay in their communities due to stigma and
other fears.
Among the recent happenings on the pornographic
videos is the ordeal of one Amanda Mary Abel, 23, who lives in Utan area
of Jos North local government.
Amanda told our correspondent
that rumours have been making the rounds in their community and beyond
that she was one of the girls in the video, thereby leading to hostile
behaviours towards her, endless gossip about her and backbiting.
She
said she did not earlier understand what was going on until her
paternal aunties and her grandmother called her to a meeting to rain
insults on her for involving herself in a pornographic film.
She
said her people stumbled on a still picture of the pornography which
showed the side face of the girl whom she was accused of resembling, and
that all her pleas that she wasn’t the one was discarded and thereafter
everyone became hostile to her.
The hostility, Amanda said,
extended to the community and the church, explaining that two Sundays
ago a woman praying in church about the pornographic incident was
indirectly mentioning her in the prayers.
According to her, she could not take it any longer and almost stabbed herself recently since no one wanted to believe her.
However,
her ex-boyfriend came to her aid and assisted her to source for the
video of the actual pornography at the cost of N8,500 from some boys who
are already marketing them since they were highly sought after, but
have become scarce.
“I want the whole world to know that I was
not involved in any pornographic film and the person I was being
mistaken for me is not me. My name is Amanda Mary Abel, I live in Utan
are of Jos North local government and I have a salon. I am Irigwe by
tribe from Miango in Bassa Local Government Area. People should please
disregard the rumours making the rounds that one of the girls seen in
the pornographic picture/video is me. We may look alike from the side
but it is not me. A frontal view of the girl and myself clearly shows
our differences, however.
“I have already gotten the video and
pictures of the girl they are mistaking me for and I have screenshot
both of us side by side. The video is 73 megabits and 23 minutes. Anyone
who wants to confirm should contact me and I will send both our both,
so that the person can see our differences. Many people have tried to
pacify me that I should not bother myself since I am not the one, but it
doesn’t work that way, and such accusation is not easy to bear.
“In
fact, I think mine is even worse than that of the girls who perpetrated
the act because theirs is not wrong accusation since they actually did
it. But mine is a wrong accusation and it is more painful. Anyone who
has been wrongly acussed before of something grievous will know what I
am talking about.
That is why I can’t keep quiet, and so it is
imperative to clear the air and I want my face shown so that I can be
distinguished from any other person. It is not that I am better than the
girls who found themselves in this situation. But I am trying to
clarify the accusation in order to avoid miscalculation from any
quarter,” she said.