The event held on Saturday, 31st March 2018 at the Michael Okpara Square, Enugu, on Saturday. It was a free event ostensibly sponsored by the state government but the venue was said not to have been able to contain fans who turned out for the fiesta.
A report by Punch says several ladies who attended the shoe were allegedly gang-raped, marring what was otherwise meant to be an entertainment show for fans. This was in addition to reports of youths smoking marijuana at the venue despite the presence of security personnel at the venue.
The allegations are reminiscent of a similar occurrence at PhynoFest 2017 in December 2017 where female attendees were also allegedly raped. And in case you’re wondering, this happened in, yes you guessed it, Enugu.
Narrating her experience at the event, a Twitter user alleged that identifying as Naturize, in a series of tweets, alleged that many girls were gang-raped.
“Never seen or heard of rape being this glorified. Truth is if your community is filled with toxic people, don’t live in denial; fix your problem even if it means not putting up a show. Yes, please don’t, more so, don’t make it worse!
“Before you come here to ask what the girls wore (which just shows your low IQ), girls on jeans were raped! These boys came with X-Men claws. They ripped jeans like it was a wet piece of paper, still had the nerves to wear condoms, have an erect and rape a lady till she bled.
“They had their governor on the seat; over 100 Force men on standby; bouncers were there too, but those retarded fools still found a way to leave girls naked. How do you rape a girl in front of her boyfriend? Are you normal? They beat and tossed boyfriends off! They bought condoms! I swear those guys are far from normal!
“People had to donate clothes to cover victims at intervals! It was that bad! Thought they said sex is cheap, so please, walk down the street and buy it cheap or take it free; don’t rape girls, don’t ever do it!”
Her account was corroborated by another attendee of the concert, Adedotun, who vowed never to visit the state again.
“I’m leaving Enugu this morning (Sunday)! What I saw yesterday (Saturday) was a country with a more youthful problem than we can imagine! Yesterday, the number of girls that were sexually harassed and raped at the concert was heavy! The concert became a rescue operation for innocent girls. Vile men!” he tweets.
Adedotun, however, absolved Flavour of blame, saying the crowd was uncontrollable.
Meanwhile, the police public relations officer, Enugu State Police Command, Mr Ebere Amaraizu, in a statement on Sunday, said the police were investigating a case of alleged attempted rape during the musical show.
The police spokesman said a suspect was in custody for attempting to rape a lady at the concert and that three others were arrested for allegedly stealing mobile phones during the event.
So far, Flavour has not released a statement on the alleged rape incident.
(Punch)
