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Police Arrests Popular Instagram Blogger Gistlover

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The Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Center, have arrested the operators of the popular blogger Gistlover.

A statement by the spokesman of the Nigeria Police Force, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, in a statement, said the arrest comes on a petition at the instance of Hon and Doctor Mrs Seye Oladejo.

The suspects namely Adebukola Kolapo, Nnedum Micheal Somtomchukwu and Isaac Akpokighe, all males of ages 27, 25 and 30 respectively were arrested in connection with a case of Conspiracy, Cyberstalking, and threat to life.

The Police statement said the suspects were members of a syndicate responsible for the daily running of the Gistlover blog, a microblogging platform known for “Cyberstalking, incitement, Blackmail, and sundry, which has over the years been a course for public outcry.

“Upon arrest the suspects revealed their various degrees of involvement in the conspiracy, corroborating the already available overwhelming evidence. The first suspect Adebukola Kolapo a.k.a Omo oba Gistlover was responsible for the creation of over 80 percent of the Gistlover pages thereby lending his digital footprint for the perpetration of the aforementioned criminal act.

Being on the payroll of the said platform and having enjoyed incentives like car gifts and monies, Adebukola was saddled with the responsibility of scouting, editing and captioning content including the cyberstalking post made against the complainant, Hon. and Dr. Mrs Oluseyi Oladejo.

Adebukola has also contributed in laundering monies gotten from the illegal scheme through various means.

“In more developments, digital Forensic analysis led to the recovery of eight (8) gist lover pages created on the instruction of the head of the syndicate by Adebukola, and wallet addresses used in laundering these monies”.

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