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Stephanie Otobo faces 14 years imprisonment if prosecuted

If the law takes its course against self-confessed 24-year-old Canada based musician who accused Apostle Johnson Suleman of Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide of monumental sex misdemeanours and abortion, she faces 14 years imprisonment for blackmail and extortion.
The laws are clear, and since she’s admitted being recruited by a powerful politicians and some pastors, her prosecution is easy.
Here’s what the criminal law of Lagos State says about the crime she has confessed to…

Attempt to extort

301 (1) Any person who, with intent to extort or gain anything from any person:

(a) accuses or threatens to accuse any person of committing any felony or misdemeanour, or of offering or making any solicitation or threat to any person as an inducement to commit or permit the commission of any felony or misdemeanour;

(b) threatens that any person shall be accused by any other person of any felony or misdemeanour, or of any such act; or

(c) knowing the contents of the writing, causes any person to receive any writing containing any such accusation or threat is guilty of a felony, and liable to imprisonment for three years.

(2) Where the accusation or threat of accusation in subsection (1) of this Section is of –

(i) an offence for which the punishment of death or imprisonment for life may be inflicted;

(ii) any of the offences defined in Chapter 17 of this Law or an attempt to commit any of such offences; or

(iii) a solicitation or threat offered or made to any person as an inducement to commit or permit the commission of any of the offences referred to in this section, the offender is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.

(3) For the purpose of this section, it is immaterial whether the person accused or threatened to be accused has or has not committed the offence or act of which he is accused or threatened to be accused.

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