9japride:
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No need arguing, if you like do like her and make false narrative about people's business. You are on your own.
The earlier you leave those content creators or cruise catchers the better for you.
When they make gains from their cruise they don't invite anyone to share in their rewards.
Leave them to sort themselves out.

You're focused on a select group of people not knowing this can happen to anyone, imagine you bought a drink and it ended up landing you or someone you care about in the hospital.....The fear of prosecution won't allow you to voice out.

Thank God I live in a sane country where common sense is still common......Goodluck with your mentality!

9japride:
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We shouldn't be sentimental about this. Just like people here in nairaland that will make nasty statement then say they are just catching cruise.
Meanwhile, they have destroyed someone's reputation or give false narrative about an ethnic group.

Again what she said is civil not criminal. Nowhere in any democratic country is such a statement CRIMINAL......If you still don't understand this then there's no point in arguing!

Quack financial experts always leave out crucial details. Remove half of Nigeria's population and the numbers would suddenly paint a different picture. Comparing Nigeria to countries with less than 100 million people is just plain comedic

Furthermore, isn't it ridiculous that everybody knows there's a problem but the geniuses in government can't implement credible solutions.....No be juju be that?

9japride:
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I get your point. We shouldn't be sentimental in this issue. It's just like some people that will insult someone and then say were just joking.
People who usually instigate crise can't even accept if someone does bad to them.
You personally, I believe won't take any chance if someone tries to destroy your million dollars business.

So you jail such a person? If na so Western societies dey do then everybody go don dey jail by now....lol. I believe we have civil courts for this reason, I still fail to see the criminal intent here.....Sue her for millions or billions, why jail her? It's simply draconian and oppressive!

9japride:
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Though, she alleged that the product is killing people.
It's on her part to prove it. Normally, 9ja matter dey always dey different. Presently, due to financial earnings from social media people just say anything they like.
Nobody business will take such lightly. Don't expect someone to react nicely.

Sounds like a civil issue not a criminal one but everything is backwards in 9ja. This is not about reacting nicely, this is about abuse of power and it can happen to anyone even YOU or your future generations.

The charges are bogus, the fact that she was arrested is another error and quite frankly I'm appalled that some of y'all can't see beyond the act itself and focus on the bigger picture of draconian justice but then again this is what I've come to expect of Nigerians, as long as the injustice does not directly affect y'all, it's all GOOD!

luminouz:

🤣🤣🤣🤣
I dey pummel Fufu and egusi soup for here
If you like kill yourself over this issue.. na dog go just bite your yansh

Yea focus on your fufu, leave grown up talks for the adults

CaptainFM1:

Whatever she's charged with is in court. Only the court can do justice aside God.
Like I said, whoever wins, I don't care. What I care about is the lessons companies and consumer public will learn from the saga.

I'll repreat there's no justice here, where she wan hire credible defense. She's already handicapped 0-1. There's no justice in 9ja court, let nobody LAMBA you

9japride:
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But the truth is that most people nowadays are not sincere in their criticism.

That's the difference between 9ja and Western societies. 9ja you're guilty until proven innocent while Western, you're innocent until proven guilty. This is not even an arrestable offense in the Western world but 9ja oppression is the key. Imagine the charges, cyber bullying abi wetin.....PATHETIC

luminouz:

Abbey...if you don't shut that your fish-mouth, dog will bite you this week

See the nonsense wey you dey defend na!!! If you have a pure water factory and someone goes on national TV to say your product is killing people, you will keep quiet? NAFDAC and LASG tested the product and was certified good for consumers and she was approached to apologize and she refused....what else will the company do if not to sue her for malicious intents? To apologize na war, especially after the product has been cleared.

What's so hard to understand in this case? Abi una don dey smoke Igbo that r.etarded una thinking ni? 🤣🤣🤣

If you don't stop arguing, dog will bite you this week!!!

Thunder fire your left ball! Even with the mumu analogy how many times have we seen some rogue pure water companies get caught for hygiene infractions? As old as you're, I can't believe you still think NAFDAC number means shit, no be 9ja again? Here's a secret, every government agency takes bribe, after the initial inspection, the rest na business as usual, OGBENI JI MA SUN

CaptainFM1:


You can give bad review. Nobody is against that. There's fine-line between bad review and defamatory review. And as you should know by now, only the court can and will decide what is defamatory. Nobody else can.

Let the court decide. I'm not here to speculate, and I don't really care who wins either. What is important is either ways, companies and the consumer public will learn a thing or two from the whole saga.

Again read the charges, she was not charged with defamation but cyber bullying or whatever, that's ERROR #1!

Furthermore, we all know there's no way she'll get a fair trial, as she's a nobody and human rights activist lawyers are not that good.....The problem here is that absence of any law that protects the consumer in cases like this, the loser will 99% of the time be the CONSUMER!

9japride:
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Please don't vouch for anyone, especially if you are not inside the person's mind or directly involved in the person business deals.
Hope you are following up on that guy who got arrested that accused E-money concerning Junior Pope stuff?
People just catching cruise online just to make some money off people's life situation which majority of the times are false.

I'm not vouching for anyone, I'm voucing for the ACT! It is consumer's right to be able to critique items or services they paid for! You cannot silence people all because you don't like their review.

Some decades back, everyone taught smoking was cool and fashionable, now we know better thanks to research and people voicing out on the dangerous effects of smoking.......If we went by your analysis, we would have questioned their motive rather than look at the product itself!

CaptainFM1:


That's exactly what she's sued for. i.e to come forward and defend her review.

It's not so simple the way you deposit it up there. You have to now show the nexus with that particular product with empirical evidence, i.e any known case of death as a result of consuming that product.

Does everybody that takes sugar have diabetes? No

Was Sugar content stated on the tomato mix can? Yes

Did Chioma read the content before buying or even before reviewing? I doubt!

Was Chioma intended to buy "tomato paste or tomato mix" ?

.......So you can see the fact that Chioma doesn't need Sugar or indeed too much sugar doesn't mean everybody doesn't need it.

Do you know the sugar content in most of the fizzy/carbonated drinks is almost half of the bottle itself?

Again a consumer has the right to review the product or services consumed! This is non debatable! There's something called cause and effect, a product does not need to directly cause harm for it to be harmful.

Exhibit one:
Vegans accuse meat eaters of eating carcinogenic items aka red meat.

We have over 100 scholarly and well researched studies that shows red meat is carcinogenic.

We have thousands of people that die each year due to cancer from bad diet.

Are you saying as a meat company, you would sue such a vegan?

Exhibit two:

Climate change is real

A climate activist claims that deisel factory is polluting the air causing climate chnage which can result in people dying.

If you're the owner of that factory, will you arrest the activist even tho there are empirical evidence that confirms air pollution is having a disastrous effect on climate.

In summary, the charges does not correlate with the offense, it is hogwash and nonsenstical and can only succeed in a dystopian country like Nigeria!

pek:
you sound too shallow and unlearned. If you have diabetes and buy a product that is not good for your health, whose fault? The product's active ingredients were clearly written on the tin. There are many tomato mix out there in the market. If a particular one is not good for you, leave it and buy the one that is.

We can compare degrees and career achievement in order to know which one of us is a dumbo! Just like the warning smokers are liable to die young, it still does not change the fact that the product can cause you to kpai earlier than expected!

CaptainGo:


You're being too 'intelligent' for your own good.

If you think a product might be unsafe, say so, and the company would defend its product. But to outrightly say the product is killing people, you would have to show the people that have died from consuming it.

There's a huge difference between Bad review and Defamation.

Again a product does not need to directly cause harm for it to be harmful......I've given you a simple narrative and it is the same argument vegans use, read more about it!

CaptainFM1:

If you say "nairaland is a useless cesspit of vipers and demons"
......that's a soft allegation which you could be true.

But if you then add... "those vipers and demons post messages that makes people commit sweetcide"
.......It becomes a strong allegation which Nairaland can sue you for to defend.

Chioma made her point, but the part she added "it's killing people" was where she got it wrong.

You can make reviews which can be good or bad, but don't make false/defamatory reviews. There's a fine-line difference between a bad review and a defamatory review.

Chioma's review turned from bad review (...it's too sugary) to defamatory review (...it's killing people).

Does the tomato paste have more sugar than alternatives?
Does sugar cause diabetes?
Does diabetes kill people?
Has diabetes killed people in Nigeria?


CASE CLOSED!

CaptainFM1:


It could be a criminal case if it's found that there are syndicates behind her actions.

At the moment, the "syndicate point" is still an allegation. There could be people (esp. importers of tomato paste) behind all her actions, including the post and the media interviews.

Soshe's remanded in jail because of COULD? Una funny for this country o

Starz825:
If you how many people this mechanical device (invented to make life and work easier) don kill............u go dey thank God for being alive

The mechanical device didn't kill anyone no dey lie on top innocent device

ogascomax:
If labour are asking what is unrealistic why would the federal government be offering to pay what is unrealistic too. The government is not ready either. The government should be talking from 100k then we can know what to say. Not this rubbish 57k. I spend more than that as a single man let alone a family man.

The 30k that it is now, how many people are paid on time? You really think you have the power to force them to pay 100k? You get gun?

Mypeople2:
Chairman you just make me laugh...When the president came to office and increase his salary, he did not think of inflation.When senators were buying bullet proof cars they didn't think of inflation. Now that the common man wants to have a taste of the iceberg, you are talking of inflation.
See Nigeria workers deserve more than 700k month in this present dispensation . What will N60k buy in Nigeria market presently? Can 100k take care of a family of two in this country?
You are saying the government does not have the money yet they are buying houses abroad.Please Nigeria workers need to be well paid

Were Senators not buying such vehicles before Tinubu? The people wey no gree pay 30k, what makes you think they'll pay 500k? Na gun you wan use? Una never ready, absence of full bloody revolution, you ain't getting shin shin......This is the harsh reality but make we continue dey pretend say mere words mean shit

CorrectionFLuid:


This is exactly how impunity gets instituted. If you commit a crime, the police should get an arrest warrant from a judge, after they have proven to the judge that you are a person of interest.

If the police invites you, you have a right to know why you're being invited. And if you don't show up, the police has to go to a judge and obtain an arrest warrant. Arrest warrants are given when it's determined that the case is a crime, and the person who is about to be arrested is a person of interest.

In a civil case such as this, it is only a courts that can determine if this is truly defamation, and not the police.

You're wrong and don't know your right, yet you are the first to tell another person that he's wrong.

If the court has already determined the case to be defamation, then it is now a crime.

And before arresting, in this case, kidnapping the guy, the police should also go to his place, and invite him. The fact that they arrested him at his place in Abuja shows that they know his place and have access to him.

The police you're here defending smartly left out the details of the so called defamation. You're turning the law on its head for something that you're not even sure you won't be a victim of tomorrow.

Yea this just shows you know nothing about police code of conduct and the overall Nigerian Constitution. Can you state the part of the Nigerian law that specifically commands the need of a warrant before being invited for questioning?

The fact that they even invited him and gave him the option of coming in honorably is already a positive, under the old police code, they would have bundled him immediately the complaint was made.

Finally, it is not the police job to give you all the detail, it is for you to be conversant with the law and know that defamation suit requires active investigation and is punishable under law. Section 375 of the Criminal Code Act, any person who publishes any defamatory matter is guilty of a misdemeanor and is liable to imprisonment for one year; and any person who publishes any defamatory matter knowing it to be false, is liable to imprisonment for two years.

The court is not the investigvative body, it is the police that investigates.....I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND THIS AND STOP THIS BASELESS ARGUMENT!

CorrectionFLuid:


Like I said, the police has nothing to do with this matter yet. There's no evidence to prove that the police invited him, except what the police wrote up there. And if you're from this country you know that the words of the police are not to be trusted

That aside, it is the job of the court to serve him. This is completely a matter that the courts should handle. The police is not the court or a judge.

The answer to your question what the police should have done is simply "NOTHING"

The police does not settle matters. Only the courts do. And it's the duty of the courts to judge the journalist and determine whether he is guilty or innocent.

You're simply wrong! Police have rights to investigate both civil and criminal matters. The case involved is a defamation suit and proper investigation must be done. If police invites you but you refuse to show then they have every right to arrest you as that is obstruction of justice. Defamation can be criminal if it results in imminent threat or loss to the accuser, it is even more imparative if the defamation was written and distributed online as that can be tied to the new cyber law.

There are over 10 different ways that the police could invoke probable cause in situations like this so it is best to comply. Even if you want to act stubborn, get a good lawyer and let him or her navigate the issue.

Whether Igbo, Yoruba or Japanese, 9ja no fit better as long as una still believe ONE person can change this country for better......IMPOSSIBLE!

The destroyers of the nation are your legislators and judicial branches, until the 1999 Constitution is torn and replaced with death penalty for corruption, this country no fit better......No be curse, na common sense!

E bi ni nkpa mono mono (Na hunger dey kill butterflies and moths), una never ready, govertment wey no dey pay 30k regularly, you want make them pay 500k.....No be juju be that?

simpleseyi:


He was well paid for the job. He was paid more than what one hundred university professors combined will ever earn. So, stop saying that he brought Glory to the country.

Football doesn't bring Glory to nations, only science and technology do. Nations that can build their own cars, airplanes, trains, manufacturer drugs to cure diseases and build bombs and missiles to destroy their enemies are the nations with Glory, not nations that can play football well

Jargon upon jargon! Spain and portugal are more known for their sport and stars than any technology, the country of Iceland is more known for its viking history and sport than any technology.....Una go just dey cap rubbish on public forum

Any coach outside of Mourinho or Conte will fail at Chelsea. The stakes are too high and our defense is rubbish, if Boehly can set aside his ego then one of these two would be perfect but knowing Boehly he'll hire Kano Pillars coach instead

Ibime:


Leave story. Usyk was saved in this match by the haymaker in round 9 otherwise he would have lost decisively on points. That's heavyweight boxing, all it takes is one punch. That's why a Hassim Rahman could beat Lennox Lewis. But today Usyk was not a better boxer than Fury until the haymaker in the 9th rewired Fury brain. On pure boxing, Fury was ahead decisively.

AJ lost decisively to Usyk on pure boxing on all judges scorecards. Unike AJ, Fury has been a boxer from childhood and can live with and outbox Usyk on the pure art of boxing. Na just haymaker make am lose today. He lost 4 consecutive points from round 9 to 11 based on that haymaker alone and that allowed Usyk to edge the scorecards.

Sounds like you're making up some legendary excuses, Fury was found out by the MMA fighter, everybody saw it loud and clear, I bet you that's why Usyk was able to destroy him in the 9th. If not for height and body, there's no way Fury can defeat a well conditioned AJ, power alone he'll get outclassed!

richiemcgold:


You've got a job
Keep digging
At least you're no more jobless
I'm still old enough to be your father; don't be fooled by the 38 you see up there.

You can claim anything online, nothing do you in fact you fit be my ancestor sef

richiemcgold:


I made my first presentation on air at 16 - - a Christian program. I never said I was a radio station worker, so don't be mischievous. I thank God for everything.

Any time you throw us lamba, I'll just post your screenshot, you were 38 in the year 2020 so how come you were 16 in 1995, your math isn't mathing, stop exposing yourself .

richiemcgold:


So go and rest kid.
Bye

Sure oga lamba wey dey work for radio station at the age of 13

richiemcgold:


I don't see you above 18.
You're just a kid, so no offense.

Offense ke? Dude that's an actual compliment if I can be where I am today and still under 18 years old, life is good

richiemcgold:


Those who gave me over 31,000 likes on Nairaland are not fools. They know the quality of my comments and opinions on this forum. Keep digging; I've given you job that will keep you busy till next year. A jobless kid like you must find something doing. Keep it up son. 😆

Still doesn't erase the fact that you claim to be old enough to be my papa yet you're just 42 years old, na the type of comments wey dey get you likes be that, you and your likers are on colos

Rather than getting zesty with me, you should be glad I exposed your lamba, now go and sin no more

richiemcgold:


You've not in any way refuted my claims. You should rather shut up! You know nothing.

It's not my job to refute baseless claim, person wey dem born 1982 0r 83 wey dey behave less matured than my youngest sibling born in 90.....O funny gan