{"id":69219,"date":"2025-06-27T20:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T20:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69219"},"modified":"2025-06-27T20:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T20:19:07","slug":"naptip-declares-speed-darlington-wanted-over-rape-cybercrime-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/27\/naptip-declares-speed-darlington-wanted-over-rape-cybercrime-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"NAPTIP Declares Speed Darlington Wanted Over Rape, Cybercrime Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Controversial Nigerian singer Darlington Okoye, popularly known as Speed Darlington, has been declared wanted by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), over allegations of rape, cyberbullying, and cyberstalking.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued Friday, NAPTIP said the artist is evading arrest after failing to respond to a formal invitation sent four weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDarlington Okoye, aka Speed Darlington, is wanted in connection with alleged offences including rape, cyberbullying, and cyberstalking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone with credible information on his whereabouts is urged to contact NAPTIP immediately,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>The declaration follows a controversial Instagram live session where Speed Darlington allegedly admitted to having sexual relations with a 15-year-old girl and giving her \u20a62,000 afterward.<\/p>\n<p>NAPTIP described the act as a serious violation of the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition), Enforcement and Administration Act (TIPPEA), 2015, and the Cybercrime Act, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The agency called on the public to provide information via 07030000203 or info@naptip.gov.ng.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola &nbsp; Controversial Nigerian singer Darlington Okoye, popularly known as Speed Darlington, has been declared wanted by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), over allegations of rape, cyberbullying, and cyberstalking. In a statement issued Friday, NAPTIP said the artist is evading arrest after failing to respond to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":69221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69222,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69219\/revisions\/69222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}