Uche Igwe, a 40-year-old broadcaster, was hauled before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State on a two-count charge of cyberstalking and breach of peace for allegedly sharing the sex tape of a 10-year-old kid of Chrisland School in Lagos State.
Augustine Nwabuisi, a prosecutor with the State Criminal Investigation Department Panti, told the court that the defendant committed the crimes on April 18. Nwabuisi told the court that the defendant used his Twitter handle @uchedark to broadcast a video of a 10-year-old girl student engaged in sexual intercourse with another student in Dubai.
The prosecutor told the court that the offense is in violation of Section 24 (1) (a) (b) I of the Cybercrime (Prohibition and Prevention) Act of 2015, as well as Section 168 (d) of the Lagos State Criminal Law of 2015. Cyberstalking is punishable by ten years in prison under Section 24 (1) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition and Prevention) Act of 2015, while breach of peace is punishable by three months in prison under Section 168 (d) of the Lagos State Criminal Law, 2015.
The defendant pled not guilty when the charges were read to him. Mrs Adeola Adedayo, the Chief Magistrate, granted the defendant bail in the amount of N10 million with three sureties in the same amount.
The sureties must present their National Identification Numbers as well as their Lagos State Residents Registration Agency cards, according to Adedayo. She also stipulated that one of the sureties must be a landowner, and that all of the sureties must live within the jurisdiction of the court.
The sureties must be gainfully employed and have proof of three years of tax payments to the Lagos State Government, according to Adedayo.
She postponed the case’s hearing until June 13th.
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