‘I thought about my children and prayed’: Woman who faces years in jail and a £3million lawsuit for posting negative review of ‘too sweet’ tomato puree describes horrific flooded prison cell after she was detained by plain-clothes police
- Chioma Okoli faces up to seven years in prison for her views
- She said a can of tomato puree was too sweet
- The businesswoman said she was held in a flooded prison cell by Nigerian cops
A pregnant Nigerian business woman has revealed her shocking treatment at the hands of police who arrested her after she posted a negative review of a tin of tomato puree to Facebook.
Chioma Okoli, a 39-year-old businesswoman based in Lagos, the country’s largest city, is being criminally prosecuted and sued in a civil court after she made negative comments about a product made by Nigerian foodmaker Erisco Foods.
She called on her 18,000 Facebook followers to share their thoughts about Ericso’s Nagiko Tomato Mix, after sharing a picture of an opened can of the product and saying it was too sweet.
The businesswoman, currently pregnant with her fourth child, revealed she was left fearing for her life and the lives of her children, after plainclothes officers from Nigeria‘s national police arrested her in September while she was at church.
She told CNN that she was made to stand around in a leaky cell for hours.
‘There were no seats, so I stood all through till the next day. My legs were inside the water [that came in from the leaking roof]’, she said.
