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| Mzbel vows never to return to KNUST campus |
10/7/2005 |
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Mzbel known in private life as Nana Ekua Amoah, one of Ghana’s sizzling female hip life artistes has vowed never to perform at any function organized on the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology-KNUST campus in Kumasi.
The decision follows an incident that took place last Saturday when some students of the College of Arts stripped her naked to the knee, just minutes after she had performed on stage.
Mzbel who sounded very sad and distressed said not even her plea and cries for mercy could stop her attackers.
“ I was screaming, yelling, crying and begging them to stop but they were so many and seemed too aggressive to stop,” she said.
She said she had no idea that what initially started as after show cheers could end up the way it did.
“ After my first performance, the students asked me to perform again which I did. But even after the performance, they will just not let me leave. They were screaming, yelling for more,” she said.
Mzbel said she told them she could not perform. “ But they will not just listen.”
“ When my crew and I were leaving the auditorium, some of the students came up tome, saying they wanted to take pictures with me. While we were at it, others came from nowhere to shake my hands”.
She said before she knew it, all the students were all over her and so looking for a gateway, she was directed by one of the organizers to use another exit.
“ Unfortunately, that exit was like a big window through which I had to jump,” she said.
Just when I was about to jump, someone grabbed hold of my legs and within a twinkle of an eye, there were a whole mob of students pulling my legs.”
She said some of the organizers of the show, in an attempt to set her free from the grip of the students, began to pull her upper part from the opposite direction.
But that did not help.
Mzbel said before she knew it, her trousers and her under pant had been pulled down while others who had gone to join the organizers at the other side also pulled up her jacket and blouse.
“They revealed everything by pulling my pants and trousers down to my knee”. She said
When asked how she was finally freed .She said some good Samaritans took off their belts and began to whip the attackers to disperse them.
The young female recalled that a similar situation occurred last year at the same venue but it was not that serious.
She said, because of last year’s incident, she initially refused to be part of the show this year.
“But one of the organizers, Joe Foli, who is also my friend pleaded with me to come and perform, promising that he and his people will ensure my safety.”
As a result of the molestation she was subjected to, Mzbel said she sustained many scratches on her legs and a cut on her face. She said she has since been treated at a hospital.
Mzbel dismissed suggestions that it was because of the way she was dressed that why she was treated that way.
“It had nothing to do with the way I was dressed. Even on that night when I performed, I was not wearing any extraordinary clothes. I was in a pair of trousers and a jacket”, Mzbel said.
She said it saddens her heart that the students acted the way they did, because according to her, audiences of shows do not have do what they did simply because they either wanted more music or an interaction with an artiste.
Meanwhile, Dean of Students at the university, Prof Emmanuel Frimpong said the matter had greatly affected the image of the institution and t promised the public that authorities of the university would do all within its powers to investigate the matter to its conclusion.
Source: Graphic Showbiz
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