The Federal Capital Territory (FCTA) High Court, Abuja has awarded N5.5 million as damages to Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lawyer to the detained leader of the
, the lawyer to the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra , Nnamdi Kanu.
Ejiofor had dragged a human rights activist and executive director of Due Process Advocates, Emeka Ugwuonye, to the court demanding N5.1billion alleged dOne of the defamatory materials was said to have been published and circulated to third parties on the internet on February 5, 2022, and continued till February 8, 2022.
The court consequently ordered “That the publications variously made by the Defendant of and concerning the Claimant on the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 12th of February, 2022, the particulars of which are contained in the Statement of Claim, are defamatory of the Claimant .
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