The Federal High Court in Lagos gave Okoye Blessing Nwakaego a three-year prison sentence 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 considered 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 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.”

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.

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 that she in turn, narrated the story to a male friend Chimabia, who asked her to do a video of the false story that Eniola Badmus specialises in introducing young Nigerian girls to men. Blessing said after making the video, Chimabia gave her N200,000 and asked her to post it on her Tiktok from where other platforms picked it,” prosecution said.