Blogger Arrested For Saying E-money Sleeps With Junior Pope's Wife
The police spokesperson in Lagos State, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said a blogger identified as Stanley will be prosecuted for allegedly defaming a businessman, Mr Emeka Okonkwo, AKA E-Money, in his online video. Hundeyin disclosed this on Monday, while parading the suspect before newsmen at the command’s headquarters, Ikeja. The image maker said that the command received a petition from E-Money about the offensive video, stressing that a crack squad of the command, who swung into action for investigation, arrested the 24-year-old suspect at Uromi in Edo.
“He is going to be prosecuted because the things he engaged in were criminal in nature. He has allegedly defamed E-Money and he is going to be prosecuted.
“We are not prosecuting the suspect because of the personality involved, but because he has allegedly committed crime, the personality goes through the normal channel by reporting the case to the police and we investigated and arrested the suspect.
“If one is defamed and you only talk about it on social media and have not reported the case yet to the police, it doesn’t work that way. The best thing to do is report at any police division, area command, or police headquarters, we will take it up,” he said.
Hundeyin warned social media users not to hurt other people with their posts, emphasizing that they could face consequences if someone reported that their content offended someone.
Every action has repercussions, he pointed out, emphasizing that the police will bring an offender to justice the moment incorrect information is made public and a report comes in from a willing complainant who is prepared to prosecute the perpetrator.
The suspect acknowledged creating the aforementioned video in order to increase his page's following while speaking to reporters outside the march.
Additionally, he said that nothing he mentioned in the video about E-Money was genuine.
“I did a video about E-Money. I said a lot of things that are not true in that video, that is why the police arrested me.
“I said something regarding a video I saw online about a woman – saying that Sir E-Money is responsible for the things that happened to Nollywood actor John Odonwodo, aka Junior Pope’s case.
“I said something like that, I also said that Sir E-Money was also having an affairs with Junior Pope’s wife. I have never in my life met E-Money. Everything I made in that video was not true.
“I made the video out of trying to boost my page traffic level, I never knew it will go viral the way it went. I don’t have bad intention to tarnish Sir E-Money’s name. I was just making the video, I didn’t know it will go such wide.
“I know the contents of the video were wrong of me to have made. I don’t know the video will escalate to that extent,” he said.
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