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Ex-Commissioner of Police, Tsav, Ordered to Pay N10m for Libel

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Ex-Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav has been ordered to pay N10m alongside a newspaper as damages to Governor Samuel Ortom’s aide, Mr. Abrahams Kwaghngu, for libel.

The case, presided over by Justice Maurice Ikpambese, in Makurdi High Court, also ruled that they publish a retraction of the defamatory publication in three dailies, as well as pay advertorial on the prime beat of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Radio Benue, and Harvest FM.

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Kwaghngu filed a suit against Tsav and the newspaper, for referring to him as a “killer, thug, and vandal”, who murdered Hausa and Kabawa people during a 2013 crisis in Gbajimba.

The defamatory statements published on August 31, 2015 accused the aide of demolishing their property.

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Justice Ikpambese said: “Considering the falsity of the story, the first defendant had no moral, social or legal interest or duty to have published it.

She therefore termed it as “an abuse of powers”

“It is an abuse of powers for the first defendant to enlarge his coast by renewing and wading into Gbajimba crisis, when he found nothing against the plaintiff during the Gen. Atom Kpera-led panel.”

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Meanwhile, Tsav recently decried the proposals for the establishment of State Police, expressing that it would avail the governors the powers to “intimidate opponents”