The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has granted
the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu’s prayer in the N10 billion
suit filed against Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, to appear
before it over an alleged false media report.
Justice Binta Mohammed, in a ruling, granted the I-G’s plea
filed by his lawyer, Alex Izinyon, SAN.
Izinyon had, in the application, sought an order of the
court, “granting leave to the claimant/applicant (Adamu) to issue and serve the
writ of summons and statement of claim on the defendant who resides at No. 1,
Mosafejo Street, Kiribo, Ese-Odo LGA, Ondo State, outside the jurisdiction of
this honorable court.
“An order of this
honorable court under the grant of prayer 1 above for leave to serve the writ
of summons and statement of claim, witness statement and other processes filed
on the defendant by substituted means by pasting same at No. 1, Mosafejo
Street, Kiribo, Ese-Odo LGA, Ondo State, and such service to be deemed as
proper service.”
IGP Adamu described as falsehood a report published by the
media outfit, on Aug. 3, accusing him of illegally raising funds to build a
Police Training School in Nasarawa State.
Adamu, through his lawyer, Izinyon, had threatened to file a
N10 billion suit against the online platform and its publisher, Sowore, unless
an apology was tendered within seven days of the letter addressed to the media
house on Aug. 6.
He had vowed to file the suit except “a written and
unequivocal retraction with an apology carried with the same prominence on its
platform and three national dailies” was done.
However, in a writ of summoning with suit number:
CU/3506/2020 dated and filed on Dec.21, Izinyon sought “a declaration that the
words published by the defendant against the claimant in the online website of
Sahara Reporters of Aug. 3 falsely and maliciously written, published to the
general public and therefore was defamatory of the person of the claimant.
“The sum of N10 billion only to the claimant as aggravated
and exemplary damages against the defendant for libel, falsely, and maliciously
published by the defendant against the claimant in the online website.”
The lawyer also urged the court to make an order,
restraining the media outfit from publishing defamatory reports against his
client any longer.
Thereafter, the judge adjourned the matter until Jan. 26,
2021, for a hearing.
NAN
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