The Department of State Services (DSS) on Monday arraigned a teenage girl before the Federal High Court, Yenagoa, for circulating the nude video of a retired Bayelsa permanent secretary on social media.
In the one-count
charge, prosecuting counsel, Mr Victor Uchendu, told the court that the accused
engaged in cyber-stalking by circulating the retiree’s nude picture on a
Whatspp group.
He added that the
teenager also circulated the nude pictures of the retired permanent secretary on
other social media platforms after an unsuccessful attempt to extort N15
million from him.
According to
Uchendu, the accused made and circulated nude images of the retired permanent
secretary on social media on Sept. 14 in contravention of the Cybercrimes
Prohibition Act of 2015.
The teenager
pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Her counsel,
Andrew Arthur, applied for her bail from DSS custody where she had been kept
for 13 days.
Arguing the bail
application, Arthur told the court that the defendant had earlier been
arraigned for criminal defamation on the same offence and granted bail by a
Bayelsa High Court.
He said that the
DSS regrettably declined to release her on bail and chose to approach the
Federal High Court to institute a fresh charge.
Opposing the bail
application, Uchendu said that he was served the bail document in the courtroom
and needed time to study it to respond to issues raised therein.
The trial judge,
Justice I. H. Ndahen, ordered the teenager to be remanded at the Nigerian
Correctional Service facility in Yenagoa until Oct. 21 to hear the bail
application.
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