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Actress Chioma Toplis remanded in prison over defamation

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Popular Nigerian actress, Chioma Toplis has been jailed over defamation against the chairman of Abia State Traditional Prime Minister Council, High Chief Uche Akwukwuegbu.

The 48-year-old actress, Chioma Toplis has been remanded by a Magistrate court, in a Correctional Facility in Afara in Umuahia, Abia State with no plead for bail after she was accused of Cybercrime, by using her Facebook page to make malicious publication against High Chief Uche Akwukwuegbu, popularly known as BAWAS.

According to the charge sheet shared by Street Journal, marked 124c/2022, Chioma was said to have tagged Akwukwuegbu as a “rapist and ritualist.” via a post on her Facebook page between May 28 – 31, 2021.


The one-count charge reads “That you Chioma Toplis ‘f’ between 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 on your Facebook page “CHIOMA TOPLIS” the following ‘,U’re rapist father invited his daughter 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 a sacrifical 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, enimity, hatred, ill-will or needless anxiety to the person of Chief Uche Akwukwuegbu, the chairman of Abia State Traditional Prime Minister Council, a renown community leader and business mogul and you thereby committed an offense punishable under Section 24(b) of the Cybercrime( Prohibition, Prevention) Act 2015 as applicable in Abia State.”

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