The Federal High Court in Lagos has sentenced one Okoye Blessing Nwakaego to three years imprisonment for cyberstalking Nollywood actress Eniola Badmus via TikTok.
During the trial on Wednesday, August 2, the presiding judge, Justice Nicholas Oweibo, convicted Nwakaego of the offence following her guilty plea to a two-count cyberstalking charge.
However, Justice Oweibo considered the convict’s remorse and gave her the option of paying a fine of N150,000 instead of the jail term.
Nwakaego and one Chimabia (now at large) conspired to commit the offence between December 2022 and July 2023 in Lagos.
They reportedly caused the transmission of communication via Tiktok, Gossipmill TV, remedy blog, and other social media network with her mobile number.
Prosecution counsel Nosa Uhumwangho disclosed that the accused confessed to making the video following a prompt by a male friend.
Uhumwangho said:
“Blessing said a friend who claimed to know Eniola Badmus narrated the false story to her and that she, in turn, narrated the story to a male friend Chimabia, who asked her to do a video of the false story that Eniola Badmus specialises in introducing young Nigerian girls to men.
“Blessing said after making the video, Chimabia gave her N200,000 and asked her to post it on her Tiktok from where other platforms picked it.”
THE BEGINNING OF THE SANITIZATION OF THE DIGITAL MEDIA.
This should send message to FALSEHOOD and FAKE news merchants with hateful renditions to rethink and rework their BRAINS.
LET THE MUSCI PLAY ON FOR THE CRASS HEADS.