Latest Entertainment News, Nigeria – In a significant cyberstalking case, the Federal High Court in Lagos handed a three-year prison sentence to a lady Tiktoker named Okoye Blessing Nwakaego after she was found guilty of cyberstalking Nollywood actress Eniola Badmus through the social media platform TikTok.
Justice Nicholas Oweibo convicted Nwakaego after she pleaded guilty to two counts of cyberstalking.
However, the judge took into account the convict’s remorse and offered her an alternative option to pay a fine of N150,000 instead of serving jail time.
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The charge stated that Nwakaego, along with an accomplice named Chimabia (who is currently at large), conspired to commit the offense between December 2022 and July 2023 in Lagos.
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They were accused of knowingly transmitting offensive and false communication through TikTok, Gossipmill TV, remedy blog, and other social media networks using Nwakaego’s mobile number.
The police described her actions as “grossly offensive, false, and intended to cause annoyance, inconvenience, danger, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred, and needless anxiety to the detriment of Badmus.”
The court learned that the offense violated sections 24(1)(b)(2)(a)(c) and 27 of the Cybercrimes Act, 2015.
During the case, prosecution counsel Nosa Uhumwangho presented the facts and informed Justice Oweibo that Nwakaego confessed to making the video at the prompting of a male friend.
She claimed that this friend, who allegedly knew Eniola Badmus, narrated a false story about her. Nwakaego then recounted the story to Chimabia, who asked her to create a video spreading the false narrative that Eniola Badmus was involved in introducing young Nigerian girls to men.
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After making the video, Chimabia rewarded Nwakaego with N200,000 and instructed her to post it on her TikTok account, from where it spread to other platforms.
The malicious video garnered over three million views online, resulting in legal consequences for Nwakaego’s actions.
He 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.”
