Justice Olalekan Oresanya of an Ikeja Excessive Courtroom has awarded N5million damages towards a singer, Ikuforijimi Abdulrahman, a.okay.a Oxlade, over a leaked intercourse tape with a girl on social media app, Snapchat, Management has reported.
In a judgement delivered on Tuesday, January 24, 2023, Justice Oresanya described the motion of the singer, in a secret recording an specific intercourse with a girl and thereafter leaking it on-line as “despicable, horrendous, distasteful and classless.”
The intercourse tape of the singer had surfaced on-line in February 2022, with out the data and consent of the girl concerned within the video.
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The leaked video sparked public outrage, and compelled Oxlade to tender an apology to his followers and to the girl within the video.
However, the girl, Blessing, had filed a swimsuit earlier than the Courtroom on March 15, 2022 searching for N20million damages and a declaration that the singer’s act of recording his specific sexual acts with out her data and consent amounted to flagrant contravention of enabling legal guidelines and a gross violation of her elementary rights to dignity, privateness and freedom from discrimination assured beneath Sections 34 and 37 of the 1999 Structure (as amended); and Articles 5 of the African Constitution on Human and Folks’s Rights (Ratification and Enforcement), Act, CAP A9, LFN, 2004.
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