The Nigeria Police has filed a charge against two men – Adebayo Aliu and Fatuntele Lukmon Tunde – before the Federal High Court for allegedly cyber-stalking a digital financial institution, Moniepoint Micro-Finance Bank.

The police stated that the charge, marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/122/2026, signed by Anthony A. Egwu, centres on alleged violations of Nigeria’s Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act 2015 (as amended in 2024) arising from a purportedly coordinated online campaign targeting Moniepoint Microfinance Bank.

Aliu and Tunde are in the seven-count charge, filed in the name of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), accused of creating a digital platform that allegedly promised ₦500,000 to individuals, who would post comments containing the phrase “Moniepoint Scandal” alongside fabricated experiences about the bank, with the intent of generating widespread online agitation and reputational harm.

The prosecution claimed that the platform was deliberately designed to stimulate “tumultuous online engagement” based on false narratives and that the accused persons also impersonated a popular social media influencer (Brian Jotter) during the alleged scheme.

The prosecution further stated that the matter is a major test case in the application of Nigeria’s cybercrime legislation in cases involving monetised social media manipulation, coordinated digital harassment, and online impersonation.

When the case was called on Tuesday before Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogibia for arraignment, the defendants were absent in court and were not represented by lawyers.

In view of the development, Justice Ofili-Ajumogibia rescheduled the defendants’ arraignment for April 27.

Counts in the charge read:

*That you, Adebayo Aliu ‘m’ of No. 6 St, Peter Church Street, Egbeda, Lagos and Fatuntele Lukmon Tunde of No. 14 Adeleke Close, Harmony Estate, Ogba, Lagos, sometime in January 2026, in Nigeria, conspired, aided and abetted each other to cyberstalk Moniepoint Micro Finance Bank (MFB) by creating a fraudulent platform to solicit online tumultuous engagement by promising a sum of five hundred thousand Naira (N500,000) to unsuspecting victim who would comment with the phrase “Moniepoint Scandal” and share any imaginary scandalous experience regarding Moniepoint MFB, for the purpose of causing a breakdown of law and order and you thereby committed offence contrary to S. 27(2)(b) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention etc) Act 2015 (as amended) 2024 and punishable under S. 24(1)(b) of the same Act.

*That you, Adebayo Aliu ‘m’ of No. 6 St, Peter Church Street, Egbeda, Lagos and Fatuntele Lukmon Tunde of No. 14 Adeleke Close, Harmony Estate, Ogba, Lagos, sometime in January 2026, in Nigeria, created a fraudulent platform to solicit online tumultuous engagement of the public by promising a sum of five hundred thousand Naira (N500,000) to unsuspecting victim who would comment with the phrase “Moniepoint Scandal” and share any imaginary scandalous experience regarding Moniepoint MFB, knowing same to be false, for the purpose of causing a breakdown of law and order and you thereby committed offence contrary to S. 24(1)(b) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention etc) Act 2015 (as amended) 2024.

*That you, Adebayo Aliu ‘m’ of No. 6 St, Peter Church Street, Egbeda,

Lagos and Fatuntele Lukmon Tunde of No. 14 Adeleke Close, Harmony Estate, Ogba, Lagos, sometime in January 2026, in Nigeria, conspired, aided and abetted each other to bully threaten or harass the corporate image of Moniepoint Micro Finance Bank (MFB) by creating a fraudulent platform to solicit online tumultuous engagement of the public by promising a sum of five hundred thousand Naira (N500,000) to unsuspecting victim who would comment with the phrase “Moniepoint Scandal” and share any imaginary scandalous experience regarding Moniepoint MFB, a platform you knowingly and intentionally created to bully, threaten or harass the corporate image of Moniepoint MFB and you thereby committed offence contrary to S. 27(2)(b) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention etc) Act 2015 (as amended) 2024 and punishable under S.24(2)(c)(i) of the same Act.

*That you, Adebayo Aliu ‘m’ of No. 6 St, Peter Church Street, Egbeda, Lagos and Fatuntele Lukmon Tunde of No. 14 Adeleke Close, Harmony Estate, Ogba, Lagos, sometime in January 2026, in Nigeria, created a fraudulent platform to solicit online tumultuous engagement of the public by promising a sum of five hundred thousand Naira (N500,000) to unsuspecting victim who would comment with the phrase “ Moniepoint Scandal” and share any imaginary scandalous experience regarding Moniepoint MFB, a platform you knowingly and intentionally created to bully, threaten or harass the corporate image of Moniepoint MFB and you thereby committed offence contrary to S.24(2)(a) and punishable under S.24(2)(c)(i) of Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention etc) Act 2015 (as amended) 2024.

*That you, Adebayo Aliu ‘m’ of No. 6 St, Peter Church Street, Egbeda, Lagos and Fatuntele Lukmon Tunde of No. 14 Adeleke Close, Harmony Estate, Ogba, Lagos, sometime in January 2026, in Nigeria, conspired, aided and abetted each other to fraudulently impersonate Brain Jotter, a social media inflencer in order to pervert or defeat the course of justice by creating a fraudulent platform to solicit online tumultuous engagement of the public by promising a sum of five hundred thousand Naira (N500,000) to unsuspecting victim who would comment with the phrase “ Moniepoint Scandal” and share any imaginary scandalous experience regarding Moniepoint MFB and you thereby committed offence contrary to S. 27(2)(b) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention etc) Act 2015 (as amended) 2024 and punishable under S.22(2)(b)(iv)of the same Act.

*That you, Adebayo Aliu ‘m’ of No. 6 St, Peter Church Street, Egbeda, Lagos and Fatuntele Lukmon Tunde of No. 14 Adeleke Close, Harmony Estate, Ogba, Lagos, sometime in January 2026, in Nigeria, fraudulently impersonate Brain Jotter, a social media m influencer in order to pervert or defeat the course of justice by creating a fraudulent platform to solicit tumultuous online engagement of the public by promising a sum of five hundred thousand (N500,000) to unsuspecting victim who would comment with the phrase “

Moniepoint Scandal” and share any imaginary scandalous experience regarding Moniepoint MFB, a platform you knowingly and intentionally created to bully, threaten or harass the corporate image of Moniepoint MFB and you thereby committed offence contrary to S. S.22(2)(b)(iv) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention etc) Act 2015 (as amended) 2024

*That you, Adebayo Aliu ‘m’ of No. 6 St, Peter Church Street, Egbeda, Lagos and Fatuntele Lukmon Tunde of No. 14 Adeleke Close, Harmony Estate, Ogba, Lagos, sometime in January 2026, in Nigeria, conspired, aided and abetted each other by creating electronically a fraudulent platform to solicit online, tumultuous engagement of the public by promising a sum of five hundred thousand Naira (N500,000) to unsuspecting victim who would comment with the phrase “ Moniepoint Scandal” and share any imaginary scandalous experience regarding Moniepoint MFB, a platform you knowingly and intentionally created by material misrepresentation of fact upon which reliance Moniepoint MFB is caused to suffer damage and you thereby committed offence contrary to S. 27(2)(b) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention etc) Act 2015 (as amended) 2024 and punishable under S.14(2)of the same Act. (The Nation)