Police place N5m bounty on cyberbullying suspect
The Edo State Police Command has pledged a N5 million reward for any information that will lead to the arrest of one Canada-based Rachael Eboni Osazee Iyonmana over alleged cyberbullying/stalking, defamation and impersonation. Addressing journalists, the command’s spokesperson, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, said, “On January 11, the Commissioner of Police received a petition from the Chairman, […]
The Edo State Police Command has pledged a N5 million reward for any information that will lead to the arrest of one Canada-based Rachael Eboni Osazee Iyonmana over alleged cyberbullying/stalking, defamation and impersonation.
Addressing journalists, the command’s spokesperson, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, said, “On January 11, the Commissioner of Police received a petition from the Chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalist, Edo State Council, Comrade Festus Alenkhe, over the alleged offence of cyberbullying/stalking and defamation of character against one Rachael Eboni Osazee Iyonmana.”
He said in the course of an investigation, the police declared the suspect wanted in the Special Police Gazette Bulletin, and that the command wrote a letter to the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Force CID Annex, Alagbon Close, Ikoyi, Lagos State, adding that while the police was on her trail to effect her arrest, intelligence revealed that the suspect was in Canada.
SP Chidi explained that the suspect opened multiple Facebook accounts using the petitioner’s photographs and full name and used demeaning, derogatory language to defame the petitioner’s personality.
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He further said that on February 13, investigation revealed that after she was declared wanted, the suspect also went out of her way and created different Facebook accounts using the complainant’s picture and continued transmitting messages as if the complainant was the one transmitting them.
He said, “We want to make the public aware that those Facebook accounts created by Rachael are not the handy work of the complainant. The suspect did that to make people believe that Festus is the one doing it
“From investigation, Rachael is based in Canada. Therefore, anybody with information about her presence in Nigeria should inform the police and the information would be entertained by the office of the Commissioner of Police, PPRO and anti-kidnapping and cybercrime unit and the informant would be rewarded with N5m.”