…Demands N6bn Damages
The Head, Media and Public Relations department of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, has dragged Premier Broadcasting Limited, owners of Human Rights Radio, first defendant and Ahmed Isah, second defendant to court over what he described as injurious broadcast, false allegations and innuendos, which he said amounted to the defamation of his character.
JAMB, in a statement on Sunday, said that its spokesman is claiming N6 billion as compensation for general damages.
In a suit, numbered CV/3211/2021 and filed by the claimant’s lawyer, Chris Alashi, before an FCT High Court, sitting at Gwagwalada and presided over by Justice A.O. Ebong, Dr. Benjamin is claiming N6 billion as compensation for general damages for the deliberate, libellous and malicious public broadcast by the 1st defendant and anchored by the 2nd defendant, Ahmed Isah.
The JAMB spokesman averred that on April 16, 2021, between 7:30am and 10am, the second defendant, while on air on Human Rights Radio and Television programme, Berekete, put a call to him via his mobile number from the 2nd defendant’s mobile number, during which the latter maliciously defamed the claimant by impugning, maligning and discrediting his integrity and reputation as the PRO of JAMB and an academic.
Particularly, the claimant alleged that the second defendant, while on air, accused him of forging his PhD certificate, as well as being an insane, incompetent, unscrupulous, sadistic person of questionable character.
The claimant also alleged the second defendant of saying that his (claimant’s) bad behaviour and arrogance are hereditary, were acquired from his parents, that there is no solution to it and that the claimant’s parents are also arrogant and damnable.
Hearing in the case has been fixed for February 14, 2022.
