The Nation Newspaper reported
that in the early hours of May 31st that 12 heavily armed men
stormed producer and director Daniel
Ademinokan‘s house in Abuja, where Stella and her daughters reportedly
lived before relocating to the United States. Daniel’s brother and mother were allegedly the only people
in the house. The gunmen asked for Stella’s contact in the US, including her
home address and phone number. But they weren’t given the information.
“Your brother and his wife (Stella Damasus) think they can
just open their mouths and say anything they like about the government, abi?”
reportedly said one of the men.
On June 2nd, Stella took to her official Twitter account to state that no form
political bullying will stop her from speaking out. These tweets seemed to
infer that she was being threatened, but vows to stand her ground.
BellaNaija immediately
reached out to the actress concerning the trending report, to which she
exclusively revealed this.
Read;
All I will say is that
no matter what anyone tries to do, it will not stop me from speaking the truth
and standing up for the rights of women and young girls.
These are the kind of
things that make people scared and run away from standing up for their rights.
It’s a pity that we say Nigeria is a democratic country, but where is the
democracy when people cannot speak their minds for fear of threats like this or
danger of being killed.
I am not one of those
who shout in the morning and then at night I go behind the public and accept
“Ghana must go” from those who are causing these problems.
We all see what is
wrong and what is going on, shutting me up will not put an end to the issues we
are facing. If we don’t deal with these things now, what kind of society are we
leaving behind for our children and their children? Definitely not a place where
they can live in freedom and peace
This is not a
popularity contest but about speaking the truth and standing up for what is
right.
They should shift the
focus from me and place priority on the matters at hand, and place it on the
safety of Nigerians, rescuing the abducted girls, deleting the bill that
legally puts our little girls in the hands of pedophiles, paying attention to
the amount of women dying from domestic violence daily, unemployment,
inadequate health care, proper education, pension funds, economic development
and all the other things that are affecting the nation.
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