Tuesday, November 25, 2025 - The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) says it has placed Nigerian rapper, Darlington Okoye, popularly known as Speed Darlington on watchlist following his refusal to honour the agency’s invitation to its Abuja headquarters.
Leadership reports that NAPTIP’s Director, Legal and
Prosecution Department, Ijeoma Mary Amugo, made this known at a press
conference in Abuja today November 24.
NAPTIP had on Friday, June 27, 2025, declared the
controversial singer wanted for alleged r3pe, cyberbullying, and
cyberstalking. He was declared wanted over his alleged claim of having s#x with
a 15-year-old girl during a live Instagram video, a claim that bothers on
sexual activity with an underage female.
The singer filed a lawsuit against the agency, insisting
he committed no crime and should not have been declared wanted.
Fielding questions from newsmen today, NAPTIP’s Director of
Prosecution said the rapper tried to intimidate the agency after they declared
him wanted. NAPTIP further said it has not been able to trace Speed
Darlington to a known address, making it difficult to get him to answer for the
alleged crime.
“So what he
did was to preemptively try to intimidate us by going to the social media to
say that he wouldn’t come and that he wouldn’t respond to us, that we are kind
of sitting on his human rights. So we tried our best to physically locate him
because you have to locate the suspect before justice will be served.
So, as I’m
speaking to you, the last report we have is that he’s outside the country and
we have not heard from him yet. We have placed him on watch list. Anytime he
enters Nigeria, NAPTIP is going to continue the investigation from where we
stopped. So that is the status of the case for now.” she said
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