The Chairman of DAAR
Communications, Raymond Dokpesi, has said that the United States Government has
revoked his visa after he was accused of looting Nigeria’s treasury.
Dokpesi disclosed this in a suit
he filed through his lawyer, Mike Ozekhome.
In the suit, he told the FCT High
Court that the US embassy in Nigeria notified him of the withdrawal of his visa
on March 16.
He said the embassy told him it
was withdrawn because the federal government included his name on a ‘looters’
list’ it purportedly submitted to it
Dokpesi was among the first list
of looters released by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed.
Dokpesi is also standing trial
for allegedly receiving N2.1 billion from the office of the national security
adviser, ONSA.
Dokpesi dragged Mohammed to court
on Monday over the publication, seeking payment of N5billion damages for
“defamation of character.”
He said in the suit, “The
defendants’ defamatory publications are malicious and calculated to overreach
and prejudice my fair trial and for purposes of stampeding and cowing the court
to convict me at all cost by agreeing with the defendants’ skewed position.”
Dokpesi further asked the court
to compel Mohammed to publish a retraction and an apology to him in various
media platforms.
He also prayed for a perpetual
injunction restraining the defendants — including Abubakar Malami,
attorney-general of the federation — or their agents from further making “any
defamatory publication” against him, requesting N50million as penalty for such.
No date has been fixed for
hearing on the suit.
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