‘It’s a long story and I can only summarise it by telling you that it was a set up. I had a show in London, it was a Basket Mouth’s show and for some reasons, I had to put up with a girl (a black lady) I got acquainted with on the phone.
She sure had a crush for me and invited a friend of hers, a white lady, to the show. The white girl picked interest and somehow, I was tricked to take her (the white girl) to my hotel room. I fell into the trap because I wanted to avoid the black girl, especially when I noticed that she was being possessive. She didn’t want anybody to be close to me and I didn’t like that. I’m a free guy; I want to mix with anybody. I want to mix with my fans.
Somehow, the black girl, out of bitterness called the police, alleging that I had raped the white girl. Probably because they are close friends, the white girl had to play along by pretending to the police that I actually raped her. The case lasted for as long as she got the courage to tell the truth. The DNA test conducted on the girl and me also proved otherwise. That was how I was discharged and acquainted and I was paid some compensation by the council’.
Those are the words of Nigerian singer, Chinagorom Onuoha a.k.a African China during a 2007 interview with Nigerian journalist Victor Akande on the London rape saga of 2006 that forever changed his career.
Before the rape case in 2006, African China was comfortably an A-list artiste in Nigeria.
