CITIZENS COMPASS – The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), Abuja, has barred further publication, sales, circulation, advertising and distribution of the book of ‘Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System’, owned by a Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi.
Justice Peter Kekemeke granted the order after listening to the ex-parte application filed by the claimant, the managing partner at Afe Babalola’s law firm, Kehinde Ogunwumiju, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN).
Justice Kekemeke also temporarily barred the agents, publishers, distributors, sellers, re-publishers, re-sellers, or any other person from further publishing, selling, circulating, advertising, or distributing the physical/hard/digital/soft copies of the book online, electronically, physically or by any other means, including the social media.
The order was granted pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice for interlocutory injunction dated and filed on the 6th day of December 2024.
The judge also granted an order of interim injunction directing the seizure of all physical copies of the book, wherever they may be found by the Nigerian Police Force, State Security Service, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and all other security agencies, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
