Defamation: Plateau Journalist, Masara Kim faces suit by PDP Governorship Campaign DG, Wednesday

Hearing into a case of defamation, filed against a Jos based Journalist, Masara Kim, by the Director General of the Plateau PDP Gubernatorial Campaign Council, Prof. Dimis Mailafiya starts tomorrow, an official communication says.

Kim was dragged to court in January 2019, over a news report he published on his news blog, www.masarakimsblog.com in October 2018, wherein the Sen. Jeremiah Useni campaign DG was accused of collecting bribe to back a supposedly unpopular running mate for his boss.

A statement of defence and motion seeking to strike out the case was filed in May 2019, by Kim’s Solicitors, Komak Law Company, in followup to a memorandum of appearance filed in January 2019.

He was issued a notice of intention to go to court in November 2018 by Prof. Mailafiya’s Councils, M.Y Saleh (SAN) & Co law firm.

At the expiration of the grace period within which the said defamatory news story was expected to be retracted, Kim was served a writ of summons in January 2019.

The University of Jos Professor of Economics is demanding a N50,000,000.00 relief for the offense, a retraction and an order restraining the Publisher of www.mkreporters.media from publishing any further ‘defamatory’ story against him.

Kim is however contending that the news report in question is not assertive and was published with no ill-will after offering a chance for defence which was not exploited by the complainant.