How to hide "comments" link in article info block when Komento is disabled?

Hi guys,
I need a suggestion.
I have inserted a "comments" link in my articles info block (where author, date, views etc. info is) along with the total comments number.
The problem is that if I disable Komento in a single article, the link still shows with an apparently random number of comments.

Here is the code I am using to show this link, if you could suggest a hack to hide the link (or at least show a default "0 comments" text) that would be great.
Thank you!

Here is the code I am using

<?php

// call Komento comment model

$commentsModel = KT::model('Comments');

$commentCount = $commentsModel->getTotal('com_content', $this->item->id);

?>

as you see below I show the comments link if the publish date is displaied, not a very elegant solution... works fine in many cases but not when Komento is disabled for a single article where the publish date is also disaplied

<?php if ($displayData['params']->get('show_publish_date')) : ?>

				<?php echo $this->sublayout('publish_date', $displayData); ?>

					<!-- Render Komento comments single article page -->

				<dd>

							<i class="fa fa-fw fa-comments-o"></i> <a href="#comments"><span class="commentCounter" data-kt-counter><?php echo $commentCount; ?> </span><?php echo JText::_('COM_KOMENTO_COMMENTS'); ?></a>

</dd>

	<!-- Render Komento comments on single article page - end -->

			<?php endif; ?>