Woman In Court Over Alleged Threat To Kill Lizzy Anjorin’s Husband

A woman, Folashade Olalude was on Friday arraigned before the Ebute-Metta Chief Magistrate Court over alleged cyberbullying and threat to kill.

The woman was said to demanded over N5m, on different occasions from one Alhaji Lawal Abdullateef, husband to Nollywood actress, Lizzy Anjorin.

She was also said to have threatened to publish his name on the Internet as a fraudster or used bloggers’ websites to defame his character and the reputation of his wife, Lizzy Anjorin if her demands were not met.

The defendant was slammed with four counts of conspiracy, intent to steal, cyberbullying and threat to kill.

According to the Police Prosecutor, Mr. Henry Obiazi, the defendant and others now at large, between 2015 and 2022, conspired among themselves to commit the alleged offences.

He also told the court that the defendant had, sometime in October 2023, written a letter to the businessman, threatening to kill him, adding that the defendant equally sent the same threat message to Abdullateef’s phone.

The offences committed contravened Sections 411, 301, and 232 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015, according to the Police Prosecutor.

The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against her

The defendant’s lawyer, I. S. Ijenkeri, pleaded with the court to admit the defendant to bail in the most liberal terms, saying that the charges against her were bailable.

After listening to the submissions of both lawyers, Magistrate Fowowe-Ersiafe, in her ruling, admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N200,000, with two sureties in like sum.

The magistrate, however, ordered that the defendant be remanded at the Kirikiri female section of the NCS facility, pending when she would meet the bail conditions.

Magistrate Fowowe-Ersiafe subsequently adjourned the matter until March 14, 2024, for trial.