A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Olu Daramola, a partner at Afe Babalola law chamber, has filed a N500,000,000 suit at at Ojodu Abiodun division of Ogun State High Court, against Tomilola Titus Farotimi also known as Dele Farotimi for defamation alleged to be contained in his new book entitled “Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System”.
The suit was filed barely a month after an earlier one filed by Chief Afe Babalola (SAN) over similar and alleged defamatory words contained in the book.
The writ, marked HCO/65/24 dated December 13, 2024 was taken on behalf of the applicant by Iheanyichukwu C. Uwa on behalf of the applicant, Olu Daramola (SAN).
The claimant, Daramola, is seeking a declaration that the book, titled ” Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System” authored by the defendant, in circulation within and outside the country and the jurisdiction of the Court, contained some defamatory words on its page 64 as published and distributed by the defendant, regarding the claimant is offensive, defamatory and derogatory and has brought the claimant into ridicule, odium, disrespect, disrepute and scorn in the eyes of the right-thinking members of the society.
The claimant is seeking a declaration that the book as published and distributed by the defendant and regarding the claimant has injured the claimant’s character, prestige, pedigree and reputation as an honest, law abiding, competent, dutiful, reliable, diligent and trustworthy legal practitioner.
The claimant is therefore seeking an order of the court awarding N500,000 against the defendant being exemplary and general damages in favour of the claimant for the book authored by the defendant and said to be in circulation all over the country. [The Nation]
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