{"id":2424,"date":"2023-08-02T16:58:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T16:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2023-08-02T16:58:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T16:58:33","slug":"tiktok-user-jailed-three-years-for-cyberstalking-eniola-badmus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/08\/02\/tiktok-user-jailed-three-years-for-cyberstalking-eniola-badmus\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok user jailed three years for cyberstalking Eniola Badmus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A female TikTok user, Nwakaego Okoye, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for cyberstalking Nollywood actress, Eniola Badmus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos gave the ruling on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The judge convicted Nwakaego after she pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of cyberstalking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a consideration that followed the convict\u2019s remorse, Justice Oweibo however gave her an option of paying a fine of N150,000 in lieu of jail time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to the charge, Nwakaego and one Chimabia (now at large) conspired to commit the offence between December 2022 and July 2023 in Lagos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It added that the offence contravened Sections 24(1)(b)(2)(a)(c) and 27 of the Cybercrimes Act, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Okoye, who was arrested for making defamatory statements against actress Eniola Badmus, confessed that she defamed the actress because a friend, Fortune Ibe, promised to pay her N200,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Seen in a video clip apologising for her actions, Okoye said she needed the money to pay her house rent, adding that desperation pushed her into acting in such a manner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Okoye said, \u201cWhat 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThat 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.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Meanwhile, following Okoye\u2019s arrest, Badmus rejected pleas to settle the matter out of court as she insisted on charging her for maligning her hard-earned reputation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A female TikTok user, Nwakaego Okoye, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for cyberstalking Nollywood actress, Eniola Badmus. Justice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-grassroots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions\/2426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}