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Omokri: Alleged Source Denies Saharareporters, Doubts Authenticity.
Sahararporters, in its story earlier this year entitled ‘Jonathan’s Aide, Omokri burglarizes house in Delta, carts away N25Million meant for buying of votes’, has distanced himself from the report and also denied providing information for the online medium.
Oyoro made this known in his statement of defence at the High Court of Justice, Asaba Division following a suit initiated by Reno Omokri.
In a copy of the statement of defence signed by his counsel, Ovie Abenabe of F.O. Olokor & Co and made available to Vanguard, Oyoro noted that he did not publish through the internet news mediawww.saharareporters.com any statement with the title “Jonathan’s Aide, Omokri bulgarizes house in Delta, carts away N25 Milion meant for buying of votes”.
He also claimed that he did not authorise, mandate, instruct and/or encourage the internet news mediawww.
saharareporters.com to publish any purported malicious statement about the person of Omokri.Oyoro added that he doubt the source/origin and authenticity of the report and challenged Omokri to establish the authenticity of same.
Parts of the statement reads, “ the defendant (Alex Oyoro) did not on the 14/02/2015 and/or any other date publish through the internet news mediawww.saharareporters.com any statement with the title “Jonathan’s Aide, Omokri bulgarizes house in Delta, carts away N25 Milion meant for buying of votes”
“The defendant denies publishing about the person of the claimant (Reno Omokri) any false and malicious statement through the internet news media www.saharareporters.com .
Another part of the statement added that “the defendant did not also authorise, mandate, instruct and/or encourage the internet news mediawww.saharareporters.com to publish any purported malicious statement about the person of the claimant.
The source/origin and authenticity of the purported print out referred to in the statement of claim is doubted by the defendant and the claimant is challenged to establish the authenticity of same”.“The defendant denies the allegation of the claimant that the defendant published defamatory matters against the claimant to blackmail the claimant into abandoning any recovery of premises proceedings.
When contacted, Omokri noted that his lawyers will based on the statement of defence of Alex Oyoro sue saharareporters.com directly and reserves the right to also sue other news outlets that carried the libelous story.
It will be recalled that on February 14, Omokri threatened to drag Saharareporters to court if it fails to publish an apology within three business days over the story while a week later, a New York Law firm Daniel Szalkiewicz & Associates, P.C, engaged by Omokri, served a Cease and Desist Notice on saharareporters.com and its publisher, Omoyele Sowore.
The firm also served the notice on Sowore’s financiers, The Omidyar Network and The Ford Foundation.
Source : Vanguard.
Omokri: Alleged Source Denies Saharareporters, Doubts Authenticity.
Sahararporters, in its story earlier this year entitled ‘Jonathan’s Aide, Omokri burglarizes house in Delta, carts away N25Million meant for buying of votes’, has distanced himself from the report and also denied providing information for the online medium.
Oyoro made this known in his statement of defence at the High Court of Justice, Asaba Division following a suit initiated by Reno Omokri.
In a copy of the statement of defence signed by his counsel, Ovie Abenabe of F.O. Olokor & Co and made available to Vanguard, Oyoro noted that he did not publish through the internet news mediawww.saharareporters.com any statement with the title “Jonathan’s Aide, Omokri bulgarizes house in Delta, carts away N25 Milion meant for buying of votes”.
He also claimed that he did not authorise, mandate, instruct and/or encourage the internet news mediawww.
saharareporters.com to publish any purported malicious statement about the person of Omokri.Oyoro added that he doubt the source/origin and authenticity of the report and challenged Omokri to establish the authenticity of same.
Parts of the statement reads, “ the defendant (Alex Oyoro) did not on the 14/02/2015 and/or any other date publish through the internet news mediawww.saharareporters.com any statement with the title “Jonathan’s Aide, Omokri bulgarizes house in Delta, carts away N25 Milion meant for buying of votes”
“The defendant denies publishing about the person of the claimant (Reno Omokri) any false and malicious statement through the internet news media www.saharareporters.com .
Another part of the statement added that “the defendant did not also authorise, mandate, instruct and/or encourage the internet news mediawww.saharareporters.com to publish any purported malicious statement about the person of the claimant.
The source/origin and authenticity of the purported print out referred to in the statement of claim is doubted by the defendant and the claimant is challenged to establish the authenticity of same”.“The defendant denies the allegation of the claimant that the defendant published defamatory matters against the claimant to blackmail the claimant into abandoning any recovery of premises proceedings.
When contacted, Omokri noted that his lawyers will based on the statement of defence of Alex Oyoro sue saharareporters.com directly and reserves the right to also sue other news outlets that carried the libelous story.
It will be recalled that on February 14, Omokri threatened to drag Saharareporters to court if it fails to publish an apology within three business days over the story while a week later, a New York Law firm Daniel Szalkiewicz & Associates, P.C, engaged by Omokri, served a Cease and Desist Notice on saharareporters.com and its publisher, Omoyele Sowore.
The firm also served the notice on Sowore’s financiers, The Omidyar Network and The Ford Foundation.
Source : Vanguard.
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