Nigeria: TikToker sentenced for cyberstalking actress
Okoye, who was arrested for making defamatory statements against the actress, claiming in a viral video that Badmus is a pimp
A Federal court in Lagos last Wednesday sentenced a female TikTok user, Nwakaego Okoye to three years imprisonment with the option of a fine, following her conviction for cyberstalking a Nollywood actress, Eniola Badmus.
The judge convicted Okoye after she pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of cyberstalking.
Okoye, who was arrested for making defamatory statements against the actress, claiming in a viral video that Badmus is a pimp who gives out young girls to politicians for their sexual pleasure, in exchange for a fee.
According to the charge sheet, Okoye and one Chimabia (now at large) conspired to commit the offence between December 2022 and July 2023 in Lagos. It added that the offence contravened sections of the country's Cybercrimes Act.
The duo was also said to have knowingly caused the transmission of communication via Tiktok, Gossipmill TV, remedy blog and other social media network, with her mobile number.
Her conduct, according to the police, was “grossly offensive, false and for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred and needless anxiety to the prejudice of Badmus.
