TheFIRM CHAMBERS
Legal Practitioners & Notaries Public
46, Queen Street, Alagomeji-Yaba, Lagos
Tel: +234 (0)817 962 1970
E-mail: info@thefirmchambers.com

August 19, 2015

Ms. Linda Ikeji
LINDA IKEJI BLOG

Dear Madam,
RE: BABY’S RIGHT LEG BROKEN AT A CRECHE IN LAGOS

We are solicitors to Wesley Crèche (“our client’) on whose instruction we write.

Our attention has been drawn to a defamatory publication on your blog posted at 8.30 pm on Tuesday, August 18, 2015. The blog quoted you explicitly as stating as follows: “A mum says her son’s (sic) right leg was allegedly broken in his school- Wesley Crèche in Obalende, Ikoyi and that she’s been going from one hospital to the other to fix the broken leg and she isn’t getting any help or even remorse from the school.” Our client can only rightly assume that it is the institution referred to since it’s the only one known as such and of that given address. The publication is misleading, false and defamatory. Do we no longer live in a nation where fairness on sensitive issues is to be expected?

This very allegation of injury is being investigated by the Nigeria Police Force at the instance of the said baby’s mum. The said mother had on the day in question picked the baby from the Crèche without the alleged injury or any other injury at all and personally changed the baby’s diaper in the presence of the care givers. Our client’s Management was shocked at the mother’s claim of a broken leg two hours after she picked the baby from the Crèche. The said injury occurred outside the time and hours the baby was in the care and custody of our client. The mother admitted this to the team of officers assigned to this case, in the presence of the undersigned.

Our client, however, despite not being liable for the injury, has so far, as an act of grace and human kindness, borne responsibility for the treatment and has offered to bear responsibility for the receipted expenses made pursuant to the treatment and medication of the baby. Our client, contrary to your publication, had expressed heartfelt sympathy for the baby. Proof of our financial support is verifiable from the Nigeria Police Station where this case is pending.

The mother had, before your current publication, tried to use the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to intimidate our client into conceding liability. You had the opportunity to verify the authenticity of such a grave allegation but failed to use it. We find this publication to be unfair and irresponsible journalism.

PLEASE, BE MINDFUL to retract this offensive publication and tender an unreserved public apology forthwith and send a written apology to our office within the next 2 (two) days as it is the honourable and appropriate thing to do in the circumstances.

Yours sincerely,
TheFIRM CHAMBERS


Tahav Iorse-Sheriffs, Esq.


Cc: Henry Uzor

TheFIRM CHAMBERS
Legal Practitioners & Notaries Public
46, Queen Street, Alagomeji-Yaba, Lagos
Tel: +234 (0)817 962 1970
E-mail: info@thefirmchambers.com

August 19, 2015

Ms. Linda Ikeji

Dear Madam,
RE: BABY’S RIGHT LEG BROKEN AT A CRECHE IN LAGOS

We are solicitors to Wesley Crèche (“our client’) on whose instruction we write.

Our attention has been drawn to a defamatory publication on your blog posted at 8.30 pm on Tuesday, August 18, 2015. The blog quoted you explicitly as stating as follows: “A mum says her son’s (sic) right leg was allegedly broken in his school- Wesley Crèche in Obalende, Ikoyi and that she’s been going from one hospital to the other to fix the broken leg and she isn’t getting any help or even remorse from the school.” Our client can only rightly assume that it is the institution referred to since it’s the only one known as such and of that given address. The publication is misleading, false and defamatory. Do we no longer live in a nation where fairness on sensitive issues is to be expected?

This very allegation of injury is being investigated by the Nigeria Police Force at the instance of the said baby’s mum. The said mother had on the day in question picked the baby from the Crèche without the alleged injury or any other injury at all and personally changed the baby’s diaper in the presence of the care givers. Our client’s Management was shocked at the mother’s claim of a broken leg two hours after the she picked the baby from the Crèche. The said injury occurred outside the time and hours the baby was in the care and custody of our client. The mother admitted this to the team of officers assigned to this case, in the presence of the undersigned.

Our client, however, despite not being liable for the injury, has so far, as an act of grace and human kindness, borne responsibility for the treatment and has offered to bear responsibility for the receipted expenses made pursuant to the treatment and medication of the baby. Our client, contrary to your publication, had expressed heartfelt sympathy for the baby. Proof of our financial support is verifiable from the Nigeria Police Station where this case is pending.

The mother had, before your current publication, tried to use the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to intimidate our client into conceding liability. You had the opportunity to verify the authenticity of such a grave allegation but failed to use it. We find this publication to be unfair and irresponsible journalism.

PLEASE, BE MINDFUL to retract this offensive publication and tender an unreserved public apology forthwith and send a written apology to our office within the next 2 (two) days as it is the honourable and appropriate thing to do in the circumstances.

Yours sincerely,
TheFIRM CHAMBERS

Tahav Iorse-Sheriffs, Esq.


Cc: Henry Uzor