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A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday remanded the controversial social media influencer, Martin Otse, aka VeryDarkMan, for allegedly cyberbullying actresses Tonto Dike and Iyabo Ojo. VeryDarkMan, arrested and detained for a similar offence on 22 March 2024, was remanded in police custody after appearing before the court on a five-count charge. VeryDarkMan’s alleged offence also included accusing Tonto of being associated with the Gistlover blog.

According to Punch, the social media influencer will remain in police custody till the next hearing of his case, which is scheduled for 29 May. His lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, applied for his bail. However, the police prosecution requested more time to consider the application, prompting Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon to postpone the hearing.



While the prosecution pushed for VeryDarkMan to be held in prison custody, his lawyer opposed it. VDM was later taken to the National Cybercrime Centre. The charges against him read, “1.

Posting a video on October 29, 2023, on his Instagram handle ‘verydarkblackman’ that contained offensive, pornographic, or menacing information, falsely alleged that Iyabo Ojo had an indecent sexual relationship with her daughter, violating Section 24 (1)(a) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Act, 2015. “Charge 2: On January 19, 2024, you posted a video on Instagram falsely accusing King Tonto Dikeh of criminal conversion of crowdfunding proceeds and being behind the Gistlover blog, intending .

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