A woman tiktoker who goes by the name, Okoye Blessing Nwakaego has been sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for cyberstalking the veteran Nollywood actress, Eniola Badmus and calling her a pimp.
The veteran actress who didn’t absorb the message well, had made a post to her instsgram, saying “Trend carefully”. [Instagram/EniolaBadmus].
Shortly after, Badmus had the Tiktoker arrested on the grounds of defamation in the dead of the night on July 22, 2023.
After arresting Blessing, Badmus refused to listen to her pleas and assured that the matter would be settled in court. [Instagram/EniolaBadmus
After being arrested by the police Blessing alleged that she defamed the actress in order to pay her rent. she added that she was paid ₦200,000 by Chimabia to lie against the star.
In her words, “So, one of my friends said if I should come out and talk about Miss Eniola Badmus that he was going to send me N200,000 because I told him about my rent. So that was what prompted the video in the first place. So I’m so sorry. I just did it because of the money. I was so desperate to pay my house rent.”
Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal high court convicted her on two counts of cyberstalking on Wednesday, August 2, 2023, after she pled guilty to the charges.
He added that the offense contravened sections 24 (1) (b), (2) (a) (c), and 27 of the Cybercrimes Act, 2015. He did, however, give her the option of paying a fine of ₦150,000 instead of a 3 years jail sentence.
