The Lagos State Federal High Court, Friday, remanded self-acclaimed relationship expert, Blessing Okoro, popularly known as Blessing CEO,, for alleged cyber-bullying and libel.
The social media influencer was arraigned before Justice Yelim Bogoro by the police on a six-count charge of alleged Cyber-bullying, libel and for exhibiting uncensored movies,
This followed her arrest by the Nigeria Police Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Alagbon on Thursday, March 30.
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Justice Bogoro ordered the controversial blogger to be kept in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Services.
The prosecutor, Rotshang Faith Dimka, had told the court that the defendant, a resident of 1b, Tunbosun Osoby Street, off Kuboye Road Lekki, Lagos State, on October 16, 2022, did intentionally sent messages using her Instagram handle @officialblessingceo to bully, threaten and harass one Folashade Samuels, a.k.a mama jazz, a younger sister to the late Bimbo Ogbonna.
The defendant was also accused of using her Instagram handle @officialblessingceo, injuring the reputation of mama jazz and her late sister by exposing them to hatred, contempt and ridicule.
Blessing’s messages, according to the police, include “Let’s ask Mamajazz where her father is??? Their father had exactly the same issue with their mother Ebele and he ran away for his dear life. IVD’s crime was that he was not man enough to run…
‘‘The family of late Bimbo is after IVD’’s properties and life. Especially her elder sister Mamajazz. Bimbo and IVD are well-known people in Lagos and it’s not a hidden fact that even in their estate that Bimbo is violent.
”Everybody knows how she breaks a bottle on her husband’s head on a daily .. Bimbo k!lled herself and has always wanted to k!ll herself right from childhood. Evidence loading. All the voice notes and evidence will be on my YouTube and Facebook.
”I will ask Mamajazz, the late Bimbo’s sister few questions…where you in talking terms with your sister before (she) died?”
The court was informed by the police that the defendants had violated Section 24 (2)(a)(1) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Act, 2015, Section 375 of the Criminal Code Act, and Section 33 of the NFVCB Act, 2004.
The police further accused her of exhibiting a film and video work titled “Sweet Sour” without a censorship certificate and without holding a licence as issued by National Film & Video Censors Board.
Though Blessing pleaded not guilty, Justice Yelim Bogoro, who presided over the case, ordered that Blessing Okoro be held in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Services (NCoS) until May 30 when her bail application would be heard.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, David Hundeyin, had confirmed that Blessing was arrested by the Force CID in Abuja.
Meanwhile, a video making the rounds on social media captured the threats from an alleged Eze of Ajao Estate in Lagos who lamented bitterly about attacks on Igbo-owned businesses.
The Eze alleged that their lives and business are not safe anymore in Lagos State at the hands of a group sabotaging their daily activities.
He pressed on to make a threat about inviting the separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) for security reasons.
In response to the viral video, the Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin assured Lagosians to maintain calm.
Hundeyin emphasised that the state’s police would not sit back and watch such unfold.
“To start with, the ever-ready @LagosPoliceNG will never fold its arms and allow such within the state…,” he wrote.
