Dollar bribery video: Court orders Ganduje to pay N800,000 to publisher Ja’afar Ja’afar

A Kano State High Court on Wednesday ordered the Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, to pay the sum of N800,000 to the Publisher of Daily Nigerian, Ja’afar Ja’afar, as cost for expenses incurred in the court case of the controversial dollar bribery video.

The trial judge, Justice Suleiman Na-mallam, granted the sum of N400,000 each to Ja’afar Ja’afar and his company, Penlight Media Limited (Daily Nigerian).

It will be recalled that Ja’afar Ja’afar released a video clip allegedly showing the governor stuffing his pockets with dollars suspected to be kickback of awarded projects from contractors although the state government had since denied the videos.

During the court sitting, the defendant’s counsels, U. Eteng (counsel to Ja’afar Ja’afar) and M. B. Azumi (counsel to Penlight Media Limited) did not object to the application to discontinue the case but demanded the sum of N400 million as part of terms to discontinue the suit.

While Azumi asked for N300 million for damages, Eteng demanded for N100 million naira.

In his ruling, Justice Suleiman Na-mallam granted the sum of N400,000 each to Ja’afar Ja’afar and his company, Penlight Media Limited (Daily Nigerian).

However, the defendant’s counsels also demanded for an apology to be published in national dailies and a pre-action letter.

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