Court remands woman over alleged cyber bullying, threat to kill businessman
By Yetunde Ayobami Ojo
ALAGOS magistrate’s court sitting in Ebute- Metta has remanded Folashade Olalude at the Nigerian Correctional Service ( NCOS), Kirikiri, for alleged conspiracy, cyber bullying and threat to kill a businessman.
Chief Magistrate O. A Fowowe- Erusiafe ordered Olalude’s remand after arraignment, pending the formalisation of her bail conditions.
Olalude was arraigned by police officers from Force Criminal Investigation Department ( Forcecid) Annex, Alagbon- Ikoyi, Lagos.
The prosecutor, Henry Obiazi, during the arraignment, told the court that the defendant and others now at large, between 2015 to 2022, conspired among themselves to commit the alleged offences. The prosecutor told the court that Olalude, with intent to steal, demanded over N5 million via the internet, at different occasions, from one Lawal Abdullateef, with a threat to blackmail and defame him and his wife, Lizzy Anjorin, if he failed to pay.
Obiazi further told the court that the defendant, sometimes in October 2023, wrote a letter to the businessman, threatening to kill him.
He added that the defendant equally sent the same threat message to Abdullateef’s phone.
The prosecutor said her offence contravened the provision of Sections 411, 301 and 232 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015, and is punishable under the same laws.
Following her not- guilty plea, the prosecutor urged the court to remand her in the custody of the NCOS, pending determination of the charges against her, and a trial date.
But the defendant’s counsel, I. S. Ijenkeri, pleaded with the court to admit his client to bail in the most liberal terms, adding that the charges against her are bailable.
In her ruling FowoweErusiafe admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N200,000,00 with two sureties in like sum.
She ordered that the defendant be remanded at the Kirikiri female section of the NCOS, pending when she meets the bail conditions, and adjourned till March 14, for trial.