A former lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Peter Ekemezie, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment for publishing defamatory statements against one Prof. Alex Asigbo.

Ekemezie who was charged with three-count bordering on forgery and defamation, was however given an option of N300,000 fine.

While delivering the judgment at an Awka Magistrates’ court, on Tuesday, His Worship, E.C. Chukwu, said he took into consideration the fact that the defendant had spent one month in a psychiatric home and four months in a Correctional Centre.

During the trial, Asigbo told the court that Ekemezie forged his signature when he refused to give him (Ekemezie) a witness statement but instead advised him to procure a subpoena.

starbuck:
He was my lecturer back then in Tansian University and he was just a cool and calm man...

People do really change 🤦‍♀️

simpleseyi:



So MAD men dey teach for universities in Igbo land. No wonder the type of graduates they produce

FreeStuffsNG:
Please which one is @bolded?

starbuck:
He was my lecturer back then in Tansian University and he was just a cool and calm man...

People do really change 🤦‍♀️

makapella:

You were in Tansian?? I was there when they were at Oba

starbuck:



It's a private university down here in the east, you can google search

starbuck:
He was my lecturer back then in Tansian University and he was just a cool and calm man...

People do really change 🤦‍♀️

simpleseyi:



So MAD men dey teach for universities in Igbo land. No wonder the type of graduates they produce

simpleseyi:



So MAD men dey teach for universities in Igbo land. No wonder the type of graduates they produce

Luckysbab:
So the defamed can't defend himself? Why should a third party (the court) help him fight his fight? And what happened to the freedom of speech?


That above sounds foolish, right? This is exactly how Christians especially sound when they question why Muslims are angry over someone defaming the Prophet of Islam or other symbols of the religion.

Just like the court will intervene as the custodians of the professor's human rights of decency, so will the body of Islamic faithfuls intervene as the custodians of the customs and traditions of their Noble Prophet. The only clause being that individual adherents are not supposed to take laws into their hands, but rather refer to the Shari'a courts.

Freedom of expression should not be abused.

Jackson619007:
Lol, he go explain tire.

abc115:

the defendant had spent one month in a psychiatric home and four months in a Correctional Centre

endsarrrs:
How I wish some Nairaland people can be taken to court.