A Federal High Court in Lagos has sentenced a TikToker identified as Okoye Blessing Nwakaego to three years imprisonment for cyberstalking Nollywood actress Eniola Badmus through TikTok.
According to media reports, Justice Nicholas Oweibo, on Wednesday, August 2, 2023, convicted Nwakaego after she pleaded guilty to a 2-count charge of cyberstalking. The judge, however, considered the convict’s remorse and gave her an option of paying a fine of N150,000 instead of jail time.
According to the charge, Nwakaego and one Chimabia (now at large), between Dec 2022 and July 2023 in Lagos, conspired to commit the offence. The duo was also said to have knowingly caused the transmission of communication via numerous blogs and social media networks with her mobile number.
Her conduct, according to the police, was “grossly offensive, false and to cause annoyance, inconvenience, danger, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred and needless anxiety to the prejudice of Badmus.”