Following her guilty plea to a two-count allegation of cyberstalking, Justice Nicholas Oweibo sentenced Nwakaego. The judge, however, took the convict’s contrition into account and gave her the option of paying a N150,000 fine in lieu of jail time.
The accusation states that Nwakaego and a man named Chimabia (who is now at large) planned to conduct the crime between December 2022 and July 2023 in Lagos.
The two were also accused of intentionally using her mobile number to communicate on Tiktok, Gossipmill TV, remedy blogs, and other social media platforms.
According to the police, her behavior 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.”
According to evidence presented in court, the offense violated Sections 24(1)(b)(2)(a)(c) and 27 of the 2015 Cybercrimes Act.
Nwakaego confessed to producing the film after being prodded by a male acquaintance, according to prosecution attorney Nosa Uhumwangho, who studied the case’s circumstances.
He said: “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.”
