Tanzanians troll Nigerian lady who was robbed, nearly raped while vacationing in Zanzibar

The Nigerian lady, Zainab Oladeinde, whose hotel room was intruded by a man while she was sleeping naked in bed during a vacation in Zanzibar is coming under online attacks from some Tanzanians.

Zanzibar has continued to trend for a second day running after Oladeinde took to Twitter to expose the ordeal she experienced while on vacation in the picturesque East African tourist beehive last year.

She disclosed that she woke up to find a man stroking her breasts and then struggling to penetrate her on the night of her birthday.

Oladeinde narrated that she put on her thinking cap and told the intruder she was HIV-positive and that he had to get a condom so she could have sex with him.

She said the intruder left at that point, ostensibly to get a condom and she quickly put on some clothes and fled into the room of a couple she had mingled with on her arrival at the hotel earlier.

She also narrated how the police refused to accord her story the seriousness it deserved and how at some point one of the policemen behaved in a threatening manner towards her because she was recording the proceedings on her phone.

The hotel she was lodged at later reacted to the allegations, claiming that the police that investigated the case called it a personal thing and that the police absolved them of any wrongdoing.

Returning to Twitter later in the night on Sunday, Zainab revealed more information that contradicted the position of the hotel.

She said while the local policemen were defensive of the suspects and antagonistic towards her, their superiors were later contacted and the suspects were interrogated, with one confessing to the crime.

She tweeted:

“I knew the world wouldn’t believe me if I eventually tell my story one day. I’d share more details into my ordeal from Zanzibar and I hope you read this as a mother, as a father, as a sister, as a friend, and has someone who has loved ones they deeply care about.

After the policemen at the Nungwi police station chased me out of their police custody on the 18th of April, 2021. The district commissioner for tourism, Hon. Sadifa contacted me and sent his representatives to the police station.

My friend had done a google search and contacted the commissioner earlier during the day. His representatives came to the police station and after listening to what I said and how I had been maltreated by the police, they condemned the policemen and started interrogating the suspects. One of the suspects who happened to be the security man at the hotel confessed to the crime. He was taken into the police cell immediately. He also said he had an accomplice who was the kitchen staff.

In his words, he said the kitchen staff told him to come to my room and they both committed the crime together. The security man and the kitchen staff were kept in the police cell that night. Which brings me to the fact that my instincts were right to not have called the attention of the men I saw by the pool that midnight because they were the same men who came into my room. The security man and the kitchen staff.”

However, many Tanzanians, have taken to Twitter to troll the victim and ridicule her story.

One of them tweeting with @call_me_mateo, wrote: “It is expensive visiting Zanzibar, how do you make such a lot of money by 22yrs old?”(Sic)

@Ridh_One_1 tweeted a picture of bikini-clad Zainab beaming with smiles while posing with a traditionally-attired local man. He captioned the picture: “With all stress that you were going through, you were able to post pictures in your Instagram account showing the joy and the beauty of Zanzibar how far is your story realistic????

Another one who called himself Renegade Countryman and tweeting with the handle, @LaTramonto, tweeted another picture of Zainab Oladeinde on the beach with another local man. He captioned the picture: “So u were traumatized for a year? This was 10 days later after the incident.”

@Sabato_Fred wrote: “When you flew from Lagos to celebrate your 23rd Birthday in Zanzibar Tanzania, WHOM did you intend to celebrate it with?

When your birthday hour was around the corner and you were getting in the mood; was the intention just to receive calls? Whom were you sharing the cake with?”

His countryman tweeting with @__mekurukito, wrote: “She was gonna eat the whole cake alone? Greedy if you ask me 😭”

@MijuLee_Tz pointedly accused the victim of having collected money from the hotel’s competition to ruin the beach resort.

@KingKyaruzi wrote: “The day when I would trust a Nigerian is when am a corpse ⚰️”

However, there were still a lot of positive, supportive comments for the victim from within and outside of Tanzania.

@J_Ryma tweeted: “I am so sorry you went through this. Tanzania is not safe for solo female travelers, especially Zanzibar.

I faced my fair share of harassment & abuse over there. When I threatened to call the police, they said that the police wouldn’t put me first, & will never support a woman.”