Why we choose to honour ex-Miss Anambra Despite Sextape Scandal – Miss Diva Award

Organizers of Miss Diva Awards have
explained why they are honouring embattled ex-beauty queen, Chidinma Okeke, despite her alleged involvement in a series of sex tapes which have been buzzing the internet for weeks now.



“Chidinma didn't have to meet any criteria to receive this award. It was solely the decision of the brand to honour her,"

Chijioke “Mr. Decency” Awugosi, project
coordinator of DIVA Queens award, said. “We are aware of the controversy that will come with it. But we hope that in due time, every well-meaning and reasonable individual will see the reasons behind the award.”

Mr. Chijioke, also said the award's
organisers were supporting the ex-beauty
queen to curb the exploitation of young girls
by the “high and mighty” in the modelling industry, who allegedly use blackmail to tarnish the image and dreams of young girls and bring the modelling industry as a whole into disrepute.

“We chose to stand with Chidinma
right till the very end. We'll give her every support we have at our disposal; morally, psychologically, legally. She is an icon and through her we can reach out to thousands of girls who have or are on the verge of being sexually exploited.

It is a civilized world, we shouldn't be so
judgmental,” he said. Meanwhile, the decision to honour Chidinma has drawn both criticism and applause on the social media.

However, the implications of this scandal for Chidinma are growing direr. After losing her title, the former Miss Anambra was also condemned by Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS), the organizers of the pageant.

In a recent development, The National Coordinator of the Association for Universal
Moral Education Nigeria, Therese Nwodo, blamed failed parenting for the alleged sex scandal.

The Catholic sister called on the Nigerian
public not to traumatize the beauty queen the more by dramatizing her situation but to offer her psychological and spiritual succor to overcome the crisis.

“The lesbianism story about the
beauty queen is unfortunate; it is symptomatic of what is going on in the
society now. Our values have gone down; parents are no longer available to teach their children what is socially acceptable”, she told News Agency of Nigeria.