One Folashade Olalude was on Friday arraigned before the Ebute-Metta Chief Magistrate Court over alleged cyberbullying and threat to kill Lizzy Anjorin’s husband, Alhaji Lawal Abdullateef.
The latter, a businessman, according to the prosecutor, Mr. Henry Obiazi, came under threat at the hands of the defendant and others at large.
Brought before Chief Magistrate Olwatosin Fowowe-Erusiafe, the defendant is facing four counts bordering on conspiracy, intent to steal, cyberbullying and threat to kill, preferred against her by the police.
The court heard that the defendant and others between 2015 and 2022, conspired among themselves to commit the alleged offences.
Obiazi alleged that with an intent to steal, the accused demanded over N5m, on different occasions from Alhaji Abdullateef, with threats of injury or publishing his name on the Internet as a fraudster or using bloggers’ websites to defame his character and the reputation of his Nollywood actress wife, Lizzy Anjorin, if the demands were not met.
He also told the court that the defendant had, sometime in October 2023, written a letter to the businessman, threatening to kill him, adding that the defendant equally sent the same threat message to Abdullateef’s phone.
According to the prosecutor, the offences committed contravened Sections 411, 301, and 232 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015.
However, the defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges with Magistrate Fowowe-Ersiafe, in her ruling, admitting her to bail in the sum of N200,000, with two sureties in like sum.
Magistrate Fowowe-Ersiafe subsequently adjourned the matter until March 14, 2024, for trial.
