The Nigeria Police Force has declared Lagos socialite and blogger Dorcas Adeyinka wanted for alleged cyberstalking, abduction, and murder, among other charges.
The police are urging the public to arrest and hand over the suspect to the nearest police station or the office of the IGP Monitoring Unit, Force Headquarters, Abuja.
Adeyinka, described as a married female Yoruba blogger from Ekiti State and Ibadan, Oyo State capital, is approximately 1.64m tall with an oval face, tribal marks, pointed nose, wide mouth, full and white dentition, and light skin with black eyes.
According to the police, she lives in the United Kingdom and frequently visits Ikeja, Ogudu, and Fagba in Lagos State, as well as Otta and Sango in Ogun State.
Meanwhile, PUNCH Online previously reported that a Chief Magistrate Court in Wuse Zone 6, Abuja, summoned two social media users for defaming Adeyinka by allegedly sharing her nude photo online.
In the court summons dated Thursday, May 9, 2024, Chief Magistrate Emmanuel Iyanna ordered the defendants – Tolulope Adeoye aka Abike Jagaban, and Tolulope Odegbami aka Olowosibi – to appear in person before the court on June 4, 2024, to answer the charges leveled against them by the complainant.
The summons followed a criminal complaint filed by the complainant’s lawyers led by Pelumi Olajengbesi of an Abuja-based law firm, Law Corridor.
The socialite accused the defendants of sharing her nude photo on social media and ridiculing her.
The application partly read, On March 5, 2022, Abike Jagaban shared the complainant’s nude pictures on YouTube, directing her followers to different online platforms where the complainant’s pictures were/are shared and ridiculed the complainant in the process.
The complainant told the court that the alleged actions of the defendants constituted criminal defamation and contravened Section 391 of the Penal Code.
Meanwhile, in suit number CR/93/2024 with motion number MN/140/2024, Magistrate Iyanna ordered the complainant to serve the defendants with the criminal summons and all other subsequent processes of the court via their social media handles or pages @Tolulope Omolara Ghaba (Facebook) and @Princess Tolulope Ajike Olowosibi (Facebook).
The magistrate adjourned the matter till June 4, 2024, and ordered that the two defendants be present in court on the said date.
