- Nwakaego Okoye has received a three-year prison sentence after referring to actress Eniola Badmus as a professional pimp.
- Okoye, who was apprehended for making defamatory statements about Eniola Badmus, admitted to defaming the actress because her friend, Fortune Ibe, promised to pay her N200,000.
The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos Wednesday sentenced a lady, Okoye Blessing Nwakaego, to three years imprisonment for cyberstalking Nollywood actress Eniola Badmus via a social media app, TikTok.
Justice Nicholas Oweibo convicted Nwakaego after she pleaded guilty to two counts of cyberstalking.
Despite the conviction, the judge took the convict’s remorse into account and offered her the option of paying a fine of N150,000 instead of serving a jail sentence.
According to the charge, Nwakaego and an accomplice named Chimabia (who is currently at large) conspired to commit the offence between December 2022 and July 2023 in Lagos.
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.”
The court heard that the offence contravened sections 24(1)(b)(2)(a)(c) and 27 of the Cybercrimes Act, 2015.
Prosecution counsel Nosa Uhumwangho, who reviewed the facts of the case, told Justice Oweibo that Nwakaego confessed to making the video following a prompt by a male friend.
Okoye said she needed the money to pay her house rent, adding that desperation pushed her into acting in such a manner.
Okoye said, “What happened was that a friend of mine, Fortune Ibe, said if I should come out and talk about Mrs Eniola Badmus, he was going to send me N200k because I told him about my rent.
“That was what prompted the video. I am so sorry; I just did that because I was desperate to pay my house rent. I just did it because of the money.”
Meanwhile, following Okoye’s arrest, Badmus rejected pleas to settle the matter out of court as she insisted on charging her for maligning her hard-earned reputation.
, where she revealed that before getting Ego arrested, she had reached out to her to stop defaming her.
During the session, Enibad also disclosed that she has no intention to take the case out of court and intends to follow through with the entire court process.