Actress Remanded In Prison Custody Over Malicious Facebook Post Against Abia Businessman
A Magistrate Court sitting in Umuahia, Abia State, Wednesday, remanded a popular actress, Chioma Toplis, at the Nigeria Correctional Centre, Afara, Umuahia, for allegedly posting malicious publications against an Umuahia based businessman.
The accused, a 48-year-old woman, according to the charge sheet, was alleged to have used her Facebook page to post “a malicious publication” against the businessman and Chairman of Abia State Traditional Prime Ministers Council, High Chief Uche Akwukwuegbu, popularly known as BAWAS.
The charge sheet 124c/2022 alleged that Toplis used her Facebook page to tag Akwukwuegbu “a rapist and a ritualist.”
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.”
