27-year-old Driver In Court For Uploading Unclad Video Of 23-year-old Student On The Internet

An Apapa Magistrate’s court in Lagos has granted bail to a 27-year old driver who was arraigned before it for allegedly posting unclad video of his girlfriend, a 23-year old student of Lagos State Polytechnic, Thelma Lawrence, on the internet after sleeping with her at his house at Ajegunle, Lagos State. Henry Aiyenero who works at Ifelodun Local Council Development Area, LCDA, as driver, was charged before Apapa Magistrate’s court on a five-count charge bordering on criminal intent under the criminal code.

According to the police, the defendant deliberately and unlawfully, with criminal intent, intimidated, annoyed and violently threatened the victim with a knife and had s*x with her and thereafter, he displayed her unclad photo on the internet.

In her account of the incident, the victim said she knew Aiyenero in Ajegunle, and admitted they were friends and not lovers and whenever they met, they usually exchanged pleasantries, but were not close to the extent of having s*x.

She said whenever he talked about s*x, she refused and changed the subject.

But on that fateful day, she said he collected her memory card and when she needed it, he asked her to come to his house to collect it.

She said she went to collect it not suspecting he had ulterior motives, and entered his room. He immediately locked the door, and threatened her with a knife.

“He ordered me to pull off all my clothes while still holding the knife and I obeyed him and he brought out his phone and started video-taping me while I was unclad and threatened that if I refused to have s*x with him, he would post it on the internet,” she narrated.

According to her, he still went ahead to post the video on the internet despite letting him have his way, and sent it to their neighbours who watched it and told her.

She also said Aiyenero told her he released the video even after she slept with him as punishment for turning him down in the past.

Aiyenero who admitted to recording the video however said he was not the person who uploaded it on the internet.

Delta State born Aiyenero pleaded not guilty.

Presiding Magistrate, Mr P. E. Komonanya granted him bail in the sum of N20,000 with one surety in like sum, and adjourned the matter till September 4, 2013, while the defendant is to be remanded in prison custody pending when he will meet his bail conditions.