11th December 2024, NewsOrient, News, Law And Society. By Sam Egburonu

Kehinde Ogunwumiju SAN, Is Praying The Court To Halt The Publication And Sale Of The Book, Nigeria And It’s Criminal Justice System, In Both Physical And Online Bookstores. The SAN Is Also Requesting An Order For The Seizure Of All Copies Of The Book, Irrespective Of Their Location, To Be Executed By Security Agencies.

Activist lawyer, Dele Farotimi, who is still being detained in prison over a criminal defamation case filed against him by the Inspector General of Police, following a complaint laid against him by Chief Afe Babalola SAN, is in another trouble.

This time, Kehinde Ogunwumiju, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) who is also the Managing Partner at Afe Babalola & Co., has filed a lawsuit against Farotimi over alleged “false and defamatory statements in his book, Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System.”

NewsOrient reports that the first case for which Farotomi is still languishing in detention seeking bail, was also over the same alleged “false and defamatory statements in his book, Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System.”

NewsOrient learnt that the new suit, filed by Kehinde Ogunwumiju SAN, on December 6, 2024, is praying the court “to halt the publication and sale of the book in both physical and online bookstores.”

Ogunwumiju is also demanding N500million in damages and an apology published in two national newspapers.

Reports made available to NewsOrient said Ogunwumiju seeks “an order of interlocutory injunction restraining the defendant/respondent, whether acting by himself, his staff, employees, servants, privies, representatives, agents, publishers, distributors, sellers, re-publishers, re-sellers, or any other person howsoever described, including Amazon Online Bookstore, Rovingheights Bookstore, Booksellers Bookstore, Jazzhole Lagos Bookstore, Glendora Bookshop, Quintessence Lagos Bookstore and Patabah Books Limited from further publishing, selling, circulating, advertising, or distributing the physical/hard/digital/soft copies of the book authored by the Defendant/Respondent titled: Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System, online, electronically, physically or by any other means including social media, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.”

He also seeks “An order of interlocutory injunction directing the seizure of all physical copies of the book authored by the Defendant/Respondent titled: Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System, wherever they may be found including at Rovingheights Bookstore, Booksellers Bookstore, Jazzhole Lagos Bookstore, Glendora Bookshop, Quintessence Lagos Bookstore and Patabah Books Limited worldwide by the Nigerian Police Force, State Security Service, and Nigeria Security.”

This is even as Farotimi is yet to be released on bail following his arrest by the Ekiti State Police Command over allegations of defamation and cyberbullying.

Farotomi’s ordeal followed the accusation levelled against him of “disseminating false information against Afe Babalola SAN.

Based on the allegation, the Police arrested the activist in Lagos State and drove him to Ekiti State in a style critics described as illegal, shameful and unbecoming of a country that boasts of practicing rule of law.

Following Afe Babalola’s complaints, the Inspector-General of Police instituted a 12-count charge against Farotimi, centred on alleged cybercrimes.

Since then, Farotimi is yet to be set free from Prison detention notwithstanding the fact that the court granted him a N50m bail.

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