Human rights lawyer Femi Falana has dismissed the allegations made by blogger Martins Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, calling them “infantile radicalism.”
VeryDarkMan had shared a voice note in which crossdresser Idris Okuneye, also known as Bobrisky, claimed to have paid ₦15 million to certain officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to have money laundering charges dropped.
In the same voice note, Bobrisky alleged that Falana sought a presidential pardon for him in exchange for ₦10 million.
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Falana has firmly denied these claims, labeling them false and demanding an apology from the blogger.
“Infantile radicalism. Some of our young people are not prepared to look at the provisions of the law with respect to the law on defamation. They simply go out there to embarrass people,” he said on Thursday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today.
“In this case, we are not going to file a criminal complaint. We will not be pushed to do that. I’m currently defending a couple of journalists who are standing trial either under the Cyber Crime Act or Criminal Libel,” he said.
“What I am going to do is to embark on civil proceedings with a view to restoring our integrity – my own name and that of my son so that nobody will simply rush to the social media to defame any Nigerian.
“We want to make an example in this case. We have asked for a retraction and an apology rendered to us and that is not too much and if we don’t have a retraction and apology acceptable to us and accepted by us, we are certainly going to initiate civil proceedings in the High Court.”
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