The Chief Justice of the Peace Courtroom, Wuse Zone 6, has summoned blogger Martins Vincent Otse, popularly often known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), for “felony defamation” of the fame of gospel singer, Mercy Chinwo.
Within the court docket summons dated March 5, 2025, Chief Justice of the Peace Emmanuel Iyanna ordered the defendant, VDM, to look in individual earlier than the court docket on March 13, 2025, to reply the fees levelled in opposition to them by the complainant, Chinwo.
The felony summons stemmed from alleged defamatory statements made by VDM on social media, accusing Chinwo of involvement in a contractual dispute and the purported diversion of $345,000 linked to her former document label boss, Ezekiel Onyedikachukwu, also called Eezee Tee.
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In assist of her claims, Chinwo furnished the court docket with documentary proof, together with emails and cost receipts, to substantiate that VDM’s allegations weren’t solely solely false however damning and injurious to her public picture and fame.
Within the felony criticism filed by the complainant’s legal professionals led by Pelumi Olajengbesi of Abuja-based regulation agency, Legislation Hall, Chinwo stated the alleged actions of the defendant are opposite to Sections 391 of the Penal Code and Part 24 (1)(B) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention and so on) Act 2015.
Justice of the Peace Emmanuel Iyanna thereafter directed VDM to look earlier than the court docket on March 13, 2025, to reply the fees.
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Recall that Chinwo’s counsel additionally dragged VDM earlier than the Excessive Courtroom of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, in search of N1.1bn damages in opposition to the blogger.
The lawyer sought an order compelling VDM to delete, retract, and challenge a public apology for all allegedly false and defamatory statements made in opposition to Chinwo and her model.
On February 17, 2025, a Federal Excessive Courtroom in Lagos held that the arrest warrant in opposition to Ee Zee Tee over alleged fraudulent conversion subsists and adjourned the case till March 6, 2025 for the arraignment of the document label boss.
Within the defamation go well with, Olajengbesi stated VDM made the posts with out provocation and with the obvious intention of reducing Chinwo’s estimation within the eyes of right-thinking members of the society.
Chinwo furnished the court docket with all paperwork and proof to ascertain that every one that VeryDarkMan had been saying had been false.
He advised the court docket that the VDM’s movies and posts had been false and had brought about vital hurt to Chinwo’s public picture, fame, skilled standing, and emotional well-being.
The lawyer stated VDM made the posts on his Instagram deal with on the 2nd, third, 4th, fifth, twelfth, and seventeenth of February 2025 accusing Chinwo of “going behind the document label to go and accumulate reveals, she was accumulating gigs and he or she was not remitting cash to the document label”.
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