Actress Genevieve Nnaji has sparked online debates after reacting to a tweet discouraging Igbo men from marrying Igbo women.
The controversy began on Sunday when an X user tweeted, “This is what am talking about! Dear Igbo men, instead of marrying Igbo woman that’ll falsely accuse you of r4ping your daughter, better look outside for wife. Go to East Africa, especially this Rwanda and pick a damsel. They’re all over social media and you can link up with them.”
Genevieve, an Igbo woman herself, fired back, saying, “In other words, instead of checking yourself and taking accountability, go for the unsuspecting and carry on with your evil. Got it.”
Her response drew reactions from other users. KC wrote, “His tweet was clearly against false rape accusers, but instead of holding the evil women accountable and demanding change, you chose to tweet this?”
Genevieve replied, “The same way a woman can’t tell an abusive man apart from a good one is the same way you shouldn’t say avoid all Igbo women. ‘Not all women’.”
The tweet referenced a case involving Chisom Okonkwo, who faced charges of defamation and providing false information after falsely accusing her husband, Ozioma Okonkwo, of raping their daughters. The Enugu State Police (SP Daniel Ndukwe) said that during the periods of the alleged abuse, Chisom and the children had traveled together to their hometown in Imo State. Her son stated that she coached him and his sisters to lie, supported by video evidence. Medical examinations found no abuse and Chisom was arraigned.
Genevieve, who hails from Mbaise, Imo State, rose to fame in the late 1990s, starring in films like Ijele and Love 2 Love, and directed the Netflix movie Lionheart.
