Nigerian-born singer Asa is reportedly in court battling lesbianism
charges. The case before Justice Coker was to be heard when her star
witness, Damilola Amolegbe was said to have declined being called as a
witness, telling Asa’s lawyers from Abraham Chambers that she couldn’t
be a witness in Asa’s matter.
Having granted
the music star much indulgence in the matter, the trial Judge then
ordered that the case be closed and called for written address of the
two parties. Asa’s first witness, Taiwo Olakunle of HiTv was suddenly
dropped at the earlier trial stage when she was confronted with hard
evidences.
Meanwhile her manager Janet Nwose, who was alleged to
be having affair with Asa did not come up as a witness which has
remained baffling and suspicious to legal experts. How it all started:
It would be recalled that Asa and her manager, Janet Nwose had a suit
against the publishers of a Lagos-based magazine, ‘News of the People’
sometime last year.
They urged the court to declare that the
statement and picture in the December 14-22 edition of the magazine,
entitled “Lesbianism Tale Trails Asa and Manager” was defamatory. Asa
wants the court to declare that the allegation of lesbianism against her
and Janet is false, illegal and a violation of their rights. They are
also asking the court to restrain the defendant from further publication
of what they described as malicious statements against them, adding
that the alleged defamatory statement was calculated to discredit and
malign them in their ‘unblemished’ career as international music artists
with high moral standing, which they have consistently conveyed in
their songs