The former majority leader of Enugu State House of Assembly, Ikechukwu Ezeugwu, has dragged the former chairman of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)
Ezeugwu in suit No E/360/2023, through his counsel, Ike Ozor, is asking the court to award him N5 billion as damages against the alleged defamation.
The plaintiff is urging the court for an order that the publication of his photograph and phone number by the defendant on Facebook, Twitter and Google. He is also seeking a declaration that is defamatory of his image and standing by the defendant, who is a professor of law, lowers him and his family in the estimation of right thinking men and conveys an imputation on him disparaging or injurious to him in his office.
Ezeugwu claimed that the defendant described him in the said publications as, “Ikechukwu Ezeugwu is leader and dis-honorable member representing Udenu in Enugu State House of Assembly. He is the “sponsor” of this criminal Bill to pay 4 men & their wives N1.25bn of the state’s money annually… Let’s give him #Oxygen. If u want his cell number, pls contact me https://t.co/OFXgFw47Er.”
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