JAMB Spokesperson Sues Ahmed Isah For Defamation, Demand N6bn
The alleged defamation of the Head (Media and Public Relations) of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, is now a subject of litigation at a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Gwagwalada.
Benjamin, in a suit filed by his lawyer, Chris Alashi, dragged the Chief Executive Officer of Human Rights Radio, Ahmed Isah, before Justice E. O Ebong, claiming N6bn damages over injurious broadcast, false allegations and innuendos which amounted to defamation of his character.
The PUNCH reported that Premier Broadcasting Ltd (owners of Human Rights Radio) and Isah were listed as first and second defendants in the suit marked No. CV/3211/2021 obtained by journalists in Abuja on Sunday.
Benjamin is claiming N6bn as compensation for general damages for the deliberate, libellous and malicious public broadcast by the radio station and anchored by Isah.
The claimant averred that on April 16, 2021, between 7.30am and 10am, the second defendant, while on air on Human Rights Radio and Television (Brekete Programme), put a call to him via his 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.
In particular, the claimant alleged that the second defendant, while on air, accused him of forging his Ph.D certificate as well as being insane, incompetent, unscrupulous, sadistic person of questionable character.
The claimant also charged the defendant with saying his (claimant’s) bad behaviour and arrogance are hereditary, were acquired from his parents; that there was no solution to it; and that the claimant’s parents were also arrogant and damnable.
Hearing has been fixed for February 14, 2022.
