As a result of her involvement in the cyberstalking of a Nollywood actress, Eniola Badmus, through a social media app, TikTok, a TikToker, Okoye Blessing Nwakaego, was on Wednesday sentenced to three years imprisonment.
Justice Nicholas Oweibo of a Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, decided after finding her guilty of a two-count charge of cyberstalking.
Specifically, Justice Oweibo convicted Nwakaego following her plea of guilty to the charge that borders on cyberstalking.
The judge considered Nwakaego's remorse and gave her an option of a fine to the tune of N150,000 in place of a jail term.
According to the charge filed by the police, Nwakaego and one Chimabia (now at large) between December 2022 and July 2023 in Lagos conspired to commit the offence.
The police equally stated that the duo knowingly caused the transmission of communication through TikTok, Gossipmill TV, remedy blog and other social media network, with her mobile number.
Nwakaego, the police insisted, was “grossly offensive, false and to cause annoyance, inconvenience, danger, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred and needless anxiety to the prejudice of Badmus.
The offence, according to the police, is against the provision of Sections 24(1)(b)(2)(a)(c) and 27 of the Cybercrimes Act, 2015.
While reviewing the facts of the case, the prosecution lawyer, Nosa Uhumwangho, informed Justice Oweibo that Nwakaego confessed to making the video following a prompt by a male friend.
The lawyer 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 specializes 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.
“Over three million viewers viewed the maligning video online”.
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