Libel: Court orders arrest of blogger



A Federal High Court in Lagos presided over by Justice Jude Kanyoh Dagat yesterday issued a warrant of arrest against an online publisher, Seun Oloketuyi, for failure to appear before it to answer a libel suit instituted against him.
The judge made the order after dismissing the submission of the accused person’s lawyer, Uchenna Ogunedo-Akingbade, who informed the court that her client was indisposed due to ill-health.
Justice Dagat while dismissing the lawyer’s submission said, “There is no medical report before the court to show that accused is sick; and the sureties to the accused are not present in the court, as such the submission of the accused counsel is hereby dismissed.
“In this same circumstances, the bail of the accused is hereby revoked and a bench warrant be issued against the accused person.”
The blogger was arraigned before Justice Mohammed Yunusa who is on transfer to another division of the Federal High Court, over alleged malicious publication against the managing director and chief executive officer of Fidelity Bank Plc, Nnamdi Okonkwo, by the Special Fraud Unit, SFU, of Nigerian Police Force, Alagbon, Ikoyi, Lagos, in August 25, 2015.
Oloketuyi, who is the organiser of the annual Best of Nollywood Awards, was alleged to have published a news report on his blog, where he alleged that Okonkwo had a love relationship with a married lady in the marketing department of the bank.
In the report, Oloketuyi had further alleged that the extra-marital affair between Okonkwo and the said lady simply identified as Justina, resulted in the birth of a baby and that the affair also destroyed the marriage of the said Justina.
He further alleged that Okonkwo had since sent the affected lady abroad to further her studies.

 

 

Check the Nigerian Pilot for the full story.

 

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