Okoye Blessing Nwakaego was given a three-year prison sentence by the Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday for cyberstalking Nollywood actress Eniola Badmus.
Nwakaego was found guilty by Justice Nicholas Oweibo after entering a guilty plea to two counts of cyberstalking.
However, the judge took into account the offender's repentance and offered her the chance to serve no jail time in exchange for a N150,000 fine.
The accusation states that between December 2022 and July 2023 in Lagos, Nwakaego and a person named Chimabia (who is now at large) conspired to perpetrate the crime.
Additionally, it was claimed that the pair purposefully exploited her telephone number to communicate on Tiktok, Gossipmill TV, a cure blog, and other social media platforms.
Her actions were "grossly offensive, false, and with the intent to annoy, inconvenience, danger, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred, and unnecessary anxiety to the prejudice of Badmus," according to the police.
The Cybercrimes Act of 2015's sections 24(1)(b)(2)(a)(c) and 27 were violated, the court heard.
Nosa Uhumwangho, the prosecution's attorney, said Justice Oweibo after reviewing the case's facts that Nwakaego confessed to creating the video in response to a male friend's prodding."Blessing said a friend who claimed to know Eniola Badmus narrated the false story to her, and she in turn told a male friend Chimabia who asked her to do a video of the false story that Eniola Badmus specializes in introducing young Nigerian girls to men," the speaker said.After creating the video, Blessing claimed that Chimabia handed her N200,000 and instructed her to put it on her Tiktok after other platforms had already taken it up.
Nosa said that the video was viewed online by nearly three million people.