According to Lamorde, the Daily Sun Newspaper on Thursday, 8th October, 2015, “falsely and maliciously” published a story titled “N1TRN LOOTED FUNDS LAMORDE, EFCC BOSS, IN SOUP.”He said the aim of the oublication was to present him as a “fraudulent and corrupt civil servant who engages in diversion of monies belonging to the government, a bad and corrupt leader who encourages his operatives to collect bribes from suspects, a hypocrite whose fraudulent activities date back to 2003 when he was Director of Operations of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.”Accord ling to copies of the statement of charges released by Lamorde’s lawyer, Festus Keyamo, “immediately after the publication was released, he received numerous telephone calls from professional colleagues, international donor agencies, multinational organisations, relations, friends and religious leaders expressing their utmost disgust and contempt at the Plaintiff’s alleged disgraceful, unpatriotic and sacrilegious conducts and questioned the integrity of the Plaintiff. ”
Therefore,
he is asking the court to award him a sum of N1,000,000,000.00 (One
Billion Naira), being damages for the words published of and concerning
him which are libelous by direct reference and innuendo contained at the
front page and page 6 of the Daily Sun of 8th October.
He also asks the court to order a “retraction and an unreserved apology by the Defendants for the words published of and concerning (him) and a perpetual injunction restraining the Defendant whether by itself, its agents, privies or servants from further publishing or causing to be published any libelous, injurious or defamatory words against the Plaintiff.”
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