Looters' list: Dokpesi asks Lai to publish retraction or face N5 billion lawsuit
- Raymond Dokpesi has threatened to take legal action against the minister of information
- Dokpesi urged Lai Mohammed to retract the looters' list containing his name
- According to the media mogul, the minister should also pay a sum of N500 million as damages to him
The chairman of Daar communications, Raymond Dokpesi, has called on the minister of information, Lai Mohammed, to retract his name from the federal government looters' list.
Dokpesi threatens legal action against the minister should he fail to retract the list.
The media mogul through his lawyer, Mike Ozekhome said the list should be immediately retracted or Mohammed will face a N5 billion law suit.
Ozekhome also mandated the Mohammed to “immediately” publish a retraction in four newspapers and pay a sum of N500 million to his client.
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In a letter dated April 4, Ozekhome: “Contrary to your derogatory, disparaging, mendacious and unrestrained defamatory statements, as published in various print, electronic and online media platforms, of and concerning our client, our client has never been associated with the looting of the public treasury."
“Before the court where he is currently standing trial on trumped up charges brought against him by your same federal government, he has categorically and unambiguously denied the said charges. At the ongoing trial which has been stalled serially by the federal government with series of requests for adjournment, our client has neither been found guilty nor convicted by the trial court or by any other court in Nigeria.
“The brazen defamatory statements/ publications of alleged looting of the public treasury mentioned by you against our client are most damaging and clearly rubbish the hard-earned reputation of our client. Our client has since received several and unending phone calls, mails and visits from relatives, friends, associates, as well as other well meaning Nigerians, who have ceaselessly called to express their shock over the vile allegations in the said publications.
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“Our client has suffered severe public odium, approbrium, ridicule, psychological trauma, untold embarrassment and countless business losses consequent upon your reckless publication which has put him in bad light before reasonable members of the society.
“Unless you carry out the above minimal demands immediately, to redress the incalculable damage done to our client’s [image], we shall, without any further communication from us, commence legal action against you to redress your unrestrained and unwarranted assault against our client’s hard earned image and reputation.
“We shall, in such circumstances, be demanding for damages in the sum of N5 billion," the letter said.
NAIJ.com earlier reported that there are possibilities that the federal government is currently compiling a fresh list of looters of the Nigerian treasury.
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The fresh list, NAIJ.com gathered, may consist of name of former governor, ministers and banker who have allegedly looted the treasury.
Sources also said that those on the list are likely looters who have not been arraigned in court in the past
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Source: Naija.ng