Defamation: Maina Drags Magu To Court For N10bn
The former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, has sued the acting Chairman of the Economic and. Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu and the commission over allegation of defamation of character.
Maina, through his lawyer, James Onyilo in the writ of summons, asked the court for a declaration that the press interview granted by Magu on November 30th and December 14th, 2017 are defamatory to wit slanderous, untrue, injurious and intended to lower the reputation and integrity of the plaintiff in the estimation of right-thinking members of the society and brought him to public ridicule, odium, contempt and derision.
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Maina also asked the court to order the defendants to retract and publish an unreserved apology to the plaintiff in at least three daily newspapers within seven days from the day of the judgement.
He also prayed the court to restrain the EFCC boss from making comments considered defamatory of the plaintiff and for the court to make an order directing the defendants to pay jointly and severally, the sum of N10billion as damages for the publications.
