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Updated
November 30, 2008
VOL.
13 No. 747 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 17 - TUESDAY SEPTEMBER
22, 2008 ISSN 1116 - 7085 N70.00 |
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Son Sues
Father for N500m Over Defamation
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THE cold war between
father and son, snowballed
into a full-blown legal
tussle last week when a son
appeared before High Court
in Koton-Karfe in Kogi
State, claiming N500 million
damages from his father for
defamation of character.
Mohammed Tajudeen Otokiti is
claiming the whooping sum of
money from his father, Chief
Hassan Suleiman Otokiti (the
Obobanyi of Ohueta in Okehi
LGA) for allegedly causing a
defamatory publication in
The Graphic newspaper of 18
March, 2009.
The paid advert in The
Graphic on the date
specified, stated in part,
“I am not the biological
father of Tajudeen Otokiti…,
from today henceforth,
members of the public are
warned to desist from
transacting any business on
behalf of my family with the
said Tajudeen Otokiti.”
The claimant, Tajudeen is
seeking a declaration that
the disclaimer notice
published at the instance of
the defendant was
defamatory, and has caused
him immeasurable public
embarrassment.
He is also seeking a written
public apology and
retraction of the said
publication by the defendant
against and concerning the
claimant.
In the 57 Statement of
Claim, before the High
Court, Mallam Tajudeen noted
that there is no
genealogical examination by
way of a DNA carried out
between him and the
defendant since his birth on
8 November 1965.
He added that the defendant
is his biological father
pointing out that he cannot
be disowned by mere
publication in a newspaper.
The claimant is saying that
he has suffered untold
rejection and neglect by
members of the public since
the said publication.
He averred in the statement
that the defendant helped
him to obtain Okehi Local
Government confirmation of
Kogi State origin and
wherein the defendant,
Alhaji Hassan Suleiman
Otokiti confirmed being his
father.
The claimant maintained that
he is the first son of the
family with other members of
the family namely, Khadijat,
Nafisat, Amudat, Huseinat,
Ummani, Ibrahim, Alaba,
Mustapha, Fatima, Kayode.
The court papers were served
on the defendant on Tuesday
20 July, 2010 at about 5.
00pm in Ihima.
The court has not slated any
date for mentioning of the
case.
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