A former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Onyeabo Azubuike Ihejirika (rtd.), has sued an Australian hostage negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davies, who accused him of sponsoring Boko Haram insurgents in the North-east.
Ihejirika, in a libel suit filed at the Abuja High Court by his team of lawyers, Chief Nnoruka Udechukwu (SAN), Professor C.U. Ilegbune (SAN) and Ben Anechebe (SAN), is demanding N100 billion as aggravated damages for defamation.
The retired army general who left military service in January this year, said as a result of the libellous statement in question, he has “suffered grievous wrong” and he has been “exposed to scandal, odium, ridicule, humiliation” and his “character, credit and reputation brought into disrepute, both in Nigeria and abroad.”
After securing an order of court to serve the process abroad, his lawyers have applied to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to enable them serve Davis who lives ib Perth, Australia, with the court’s processes.
Australia and Nigeria are members of the Commonwealth and a special procedure applies when serving court processes on defendants residing in a country that is a member of the Commonwealth other than the country where the writ is issued.
Apart from the N100 billion damages, Ihejirika is also seeking an order of perpetual injunction restraining Davis or his agents from further making defamatory comments about him.........
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