Blogger To Face Prosecution For Defaming Businessman E-Money

SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the Lagos State police spokesperson, announced that a blogger going by the name Stanley will face legal action for allegedly defaming Mr. Emeka Okonkwo, also known as E-Money, in his online video.

At the command's headquarters in Ikeja on Monday, while presenting the suspect to reporters, Hundeyin made this revelation.

The police emphasized that a crack team inside the command, which sprang into action for an investigation, apprehended the 24-year-old suspect at Uromi in Edo after receiving a petition on the offending video from E-Money.

“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 a 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, you 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 against causing injury to others with their contents, stressing that action may be taken against them if reports of their contents were found offensive by anyone.