The lawmaker representing Kwande/Ushongo Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Terseer Ugbor, has filed a N1 billion suit against Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue State for alleged defamation at a Makurdi High Court.
Also joined in the suit filed are the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Tersoo Kula, and a Principle Special Assistant to the Governor on Media, Isaac Uzaan.
The lawmaker, in the suit marked MHC/422/2024 claim he had written two letters dated October 9 and 16, 2023 to the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, requesting for palliatives to support his displaced constituents and victims of herdsmen attacks in Moon, Yaav, Kumakwagh and Mbadura Council Wards of Kwande Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue State.
He also recalled how the humanitarian situation in his constituency kept worsening and since there was no positive response from NEMA, he wrote another letter on May 8, 2024 requesting “urgent intervention in support of the victims in Moon, Menev, Liev 1, Liev 2, Yaav, Kumakwagh, Yaav and Mbadura Council Wards of Kwande LGA, Benue State.
He said: “NEMA finally approved and released relief materials for my constituents as requested, and I wrote a letter on the same date acknowledging receipt.”
The lawmaker stated that on September 11, 2024, while he was in the United States of America attending to matters of national interest, he arranged and conveyed the relief materials from the warehouse of NEMA in Jos to Makurdi for storage at a public commercial warehouse for safety to enable him return and convey the items to his constituency for onward distribution to the IDPs.
In the suit, the lawmaker is seeking an order of court directing the defendants “to pull down all the defamatory posts/publications against him posted on their Facebook pages.
Ugbor is further seeking “an order of court directing and awarding the defendants jointly and or severally to pay the plaintiff the sum of N1 billion in favour of the plaintiff as damages for the defamation of the plaintiff’s character and reputation by the defendants.”
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