for allegedly posting two offensive stories on the Internet
against the Managing Director of United Bank for Africa,
Philips Oduoza.
Chima was arraigned on two counts of cybercrime before
Justice Mohammed Yunusa of a Federal High Court in Lagos.
The police accused the blogger of conniving with some
persons still at large to post online, a story titled, “Randy
UBA MD, Philips Oduoza in adultery mess…romances star
acress, Genevieve Nnaji…”
The blogger was said to have also, sometime in March this
year, posted a second story with the title, “Randy UBA MD,
Philips Oduoza’s wife to divorce him over affairs with actress
Genevieve.”
The prosecutor, Henry Obiazi, who pressed the charges
against Chima on Monday, claimed that the blogger knew
the stories to be false and posted them online for the
purpose of annoying the bank MD and causing him ill will
and needless anxiety.
Obiazi claimed that Chima violated the law and was bound
to be punished under Section 24(1)(b) of the Cybercrime
(Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Act, Laws of the Federation of
Nigeria 2015.
One of the counts read, “That you, Desmond Ike Chima ‘m’
and others now at large, in March 2015, at Ojodu, Lagos, in
the Lagos Judicial Division, intentionally sent or published
an article by means of computer on the Internet entitled,
“Randy UBA MD, Philips Oduoza in adultery mess…
romances star actress, Genevieve Nnaji…” for the purpose
of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction,
insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred, ill will or
needless anxiety to the said Philips Oduoza and thereby
committed an offence contrary to and punishable under
Section 24(1)(b) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention,
etc) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2015.”
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the two counts.
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