Nollywood Actress Chioma Toplis Remanded In Jail Over Facebook Post

 

Nigerian actress Chioma Toplis has been remanded at the Nigerian Correctional Centre, Afara prison by a Magistrate Court in Umuahia, Abia State for alleged cybercrime.

Vanguard reports that the 48-year-old is being accused of using her Facebook account to post a "malicious publication" against the Chairman of Abia State Traditional Prime Ministers Council, High Chief Uche Akwukwuegbu popularly known as BAWAS.

In the charge marked 124c/2022 and signed by SE Onyemauche, a Chief Superintendent of Police, Toplis is said to have labeled Akwukwuegbu "a rapist and ritualist".

The actress is said to have committed the alleged offence between May 28 and 31, 2021.

The charge reads: "That you Chioma Toplis ‘f’ between the 28th and 31st of May, 2021, while residing in Nigeria, and being a social network user, and being under the Umuahia North Magisterial District and knowingly and maliciously published in your Facebook page “CHIOMA TOPLIS” the following: 'Ur rapist father invited his daughter-in-law (now Ex) to Nigeria without his son’s consent and slept with her'.

"You equally called him a ritualist who used his last daughter as the sacrificial lamb of the family, hence she is perpetually sick and hidden in the house.

"A publication which you know to be false and intended to cause annoyance, inconveniences, danger, obstruction, enmity, hatred, ill-will or needless anxiety to the person of Chief Uche Akwukwuegbu, the Chairman of Abia State Traditional Prime Ministers Council, a renowned Community Leader and business mogul, and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 24(b)of the Cyber Crime (Prohibition, Prevention etc) Act, 2015, as applicable in Abia State."

The case has been adjourned to April 14, 2022.