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An on-air personality named Mr. Uche Igwe has been re-arrested by the Lagos State Ministry of Justice and is today appeared in Yaba Magistrate Court on charges of spreading a student at Chrisland School’s sex tape on social media.
Following an earlier arraignment by the Nigerian Police on a two-count charge of cyberstalking and a breach of peace in May 2022, the defendant was re-arrested on a new one-count charge before Chief Magistrate Adeola Olatunbosun, according to the Directorate of Public Prosecution in the Ministry’s counsel, Omolola Saliu.
She stated that the defendant used his social media handle (@uchedark) to perpetrate the offence in the Lagos Magisterial District on or around April 18, 2022, in violation of section 23 (2) of the Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency Law 2021.
However, Chief Magistrate Adeola Olatunbosun adjourned the case to September 28, 2022.