Monster-Mania is assisting authorities in their investigation into an alleged incident involving attendees and a celebrity guest at its convention in Cherry Hill, New Jersey last weekend. Monster-Mania has released a brief statement on Facebook : Gary Busey was a guest at a Monster-Mania event in Cherry Hill, New Jersey on the weekend of August 12-14 right up until he did things which have resulted in multiple charges of criminal sexual conduct. Celebrity Guest Kicked Out For Sexual Assault Several have reported getting a form reply from the State Department stating that Ekpeki would need to present “additional, compelling evidence of his socioeconomic ties to Nigeria”.Įkpeki has also pointed out that this experience is normal for Nigerians attempting to visit the US, or other Western countries (a group of Nigerian fans was denied visas to travel to Ireland for the 2019 Worldcon, for instance). Numerous US-based fans have written to their congresspeople and the US State Department asking for Ekpeki’s application to be reconsidered. The end!Įkpeki later posted an image of a further response from the US Embassy which states that the denial was over lack of proof that he would go back to Nigeria afterward. Second one, have I ever travelled abroad? To the US? No. They only really seemed to care about 2 things.Īm I a student. Interviews in open space with people's sensitive info, account contents, addresses where anyone can hear. The interview is in an open place so I heard and saw the interview of others.
Didn't look at anything, ask me anything about the trip, what the WorldCon was, why I was going, where I was staying, how I was getting funded. Printed my Gofundme page to show how I got funding, got a letter from attesting to his help, printed statement of account, printed hotel reservation at the WorldCon hotel, printed invite from WorldCon. He described the experience in detail in a Twitter thread : Hoping to attend the Hugo ceremony at the World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago (September 1-5), he was denied an entry visa in a very brief interview with US embassy staff.
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki is a Nigerian author and editor, and a finalist in two categories in the fan-voted Hugo Awards this year.
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