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EFCC boss Magu sues Sun newspaper, wants N100m
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has dragged The Sun newspaper to court over alleged defamation.
The case has been instituted at a Lagos High Court by Magu’s lawyer, Wahab Shittu, who asked the court to rule that the story published in Saturday Sun of March 25, 2017, about two houses said to belong to Magu’s wife, defamed the anti-graft boss.
He is also asking the court to declare “an order for publication of apology, retraction and rebuttal of the libelous material by defendants on the front page of the Saturday Sun newspaper for seven consecutive editions of the newspaper and two other major newspapers for seven consecutive days.”
Magu prayed the court to among other things, also place an order of “perpetual injunction restraining the newspaper or their cronies, group of people, association or anyone, however, called through the defendants or any newspaper/magazine, from further publishing or disseminating the libelous materials or similar one against the claimant forthwith.”
He, therefore, asked the court to award, “damages in the sum of N100 million only against the defendants and in favour of the claimant.”
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This is coming after Shittu had sometime in March written a letter to the newspaper, where he vowed to sue The Sun for N5billion should it fail to retract the story.
The EFCC had about 10 days ago stormed The Sun newspaper office in Lagos.
The management of the newspaper had in their reaction to the EFFC said that it strongly viewed the onslaught against the newspaper “as a personal vendetta by the leadership of EFCC, and by extension a declaration of war against the media.”
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