Defamation: Court orders activist to pay Nnamdi Kanu's lawyer N5.5 million | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

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A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has awarded a N5.5 million damages against a lawyer and Executive Director of Due Process Advocate, Emeka Ugwuonye.

The court in a judgement delivered by Justice Njideka Nwosu-Iheme ordered Ugwuonye to pay the money in favour of Ifeanyi Ejiofor, counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra , Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

The defendant was said to have published the defamation and circulated to third parties on the internet on February 5, 2022, and continued till February 8 2022. “An order of the Honourable Court directing the defendant to forthwith publish a written undertaking not to publish any similar or further libel of and concerning the claimant.

He was also ordered to forthwith publish a written undertaking not to publish any similar or further libel of and concerning the claimant. Ejiofor in a statement reacting to the judgement said its execution is a battle of no retreat, no surrender.

 

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