Maduako Igbokwe I Monday, Jan. 22, 2024
AWKA, Anambra- Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of private security company, Blue Shield Security Company Limited, Ozo Jeff Nweke has dragged Anambra State Commissioner of Police CP Aderemi Adeoye and Police Service Commission to Anambra State High court sitting in Awka for defamation of character.
Ozo Jeff Nweke said CP Aderemi Adeoye had made a publication titled ” Brief on Criminal Antics of Ozo Jeff Nweke, owner of Blue Shield Security Company, against state CID, Awka and Anambra State Police command” and published on social media.
He said the social media publication has tarnished his image and has diminished his reputation in the estimation of every right thinking person in the society.
In a suit number A/390/2023 , Ozo Jeff Nweke is claiming the sum of N200 million in general damages against the CP and Police Service Commission.
The plaintiff is also praying for the court to order the respondents to write an apology to him and be published in two national daily newspapers and granting perpetual injunction restraining the defendants from further publication of any defamatory matter against him.
In a statement of claim by his lawyers G.U Moneke Esq and J.O Ezeh Esq, Ozo Jeff Nweke claimed that Adeoye for no justifiable reason published in social media a defamatory matter against him and since then people and his business associate have been avoiding him.
He said that Adeoye’s publication has completely maligned his reputation and diminished his integrity in estimation of every Awka man and in the eyes of all right thinking men in the society who read the publication.
He also claimed that as an Ozo title holder, the publication has reduced him and bought him low in the estimation of men in the society and his company has lost patronage over the publication.
He also claimed that as a community leader in Awka his own people have deserted him, and his home which was a beehives of activities whenever he was around but that his home is now a ghost centre as hardly will any one notice his presence as result of the publication.
He also claimed that the publication portrayed him as mischievous man, a man without honour, a man without integrity, a double edge sword, a man without positive reputation and trouble masker who is not trustworthy.
Ozo Jeff Nweke also claimed that since after the publication people he had business with have been calling him in derogatory manners, telling him that they never knew he is criminal
He urged the court to stop the defendants from further publication of defamatory matter against him as they will not stop unless the court so ordered .
