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The Federal Excessive Courtroom in Abuja has issued an ex-parte order stopping the manufacturing and distribution of “Nigeria and Its Felony Justice System”, a e-book written by human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi.
The e-book has been a subject of heated debate on account of its allegations of judicial manipulation and just lately grew to become a worldwide bestseller within the politics class on Amazon platform.
The Bureau Newspaper had reported that armed law enforcement officials arrested Farotimi at his workplace in Lagos State on 3 December, and took him to Ekiti, greater than 300km.
On the next day he was arraigned earlier than a Justice of the Peace Courtroom in Ado-Ekiti for alleged legal defamation of authorized luminary, Afe Babalola, SAN, within the e-book, “Nigeria and Its Felony Justice System”.
The e-book accused Babalola of manipulating the judiciary to safe beneficial rulings for his purchasers.
The allegations haven’t solely attracted important public curiosity however have additionally put the authorized icon within the highlight with rising condemnation for his use of the police to harass Farotimi.
Nevertheless, the court docket order was requested and obtained by Afe Babalola, and calls for that every one gross sales and distribution of the e-book, each bodily and digital copies, be stopped instantly.
Within the swimsuit No. CV/5372/24 filed earlier than the court docket by Kehinde Ogunwumiju, SAN, the Head of Afe Babalola’s regulation agency, and dated December 6, 2024, the Plaintiff additionally sought a directive to grab any royalties generated from the e-book’s gross sales.
The court docket granted an interlocutory injunction restraining Farotimi and all affiliated events from additional distributing the e-book.
The injunction learn, “An order of interlocutory injunction restraining the defendant/respondent, whether or not appearing by himself, his workers, workers, servants, privies, representatives, brokers, publishers, distributors, sellers, re-publishers, re-sellers, or every other individual nonetheless described together with Amazon On-line Bookstore, Rovingheights Bookstore, Booksellers Bookstore, Jazzhole Lagos Bookstore, Glendora Bookshop, Quintessence Lagos Bookstore and Patabah Books Restricted from additional publishing, promoting, circulating, promoting, or distributing the bodily/onerous/digital/delicate copies of the e-book authored by the defendant/respondent titled: ‘Nigeria and Its Felony Justice System’, on-line.
“An order of interlocutory injunction directing the seizure of all bodily copies of the e-book authored by the defendant/respondent titled, ‘Nigeria and Its Felony Justice System’n wherever they could be.”
The authorized transfer to dam the e-book’s sale and distribution could also be linked to its hovering world recognition, with critics and readers alike praising its daring exposé of Nigeria’s legal justice system.
In the meantime, distributors have stopped the sale of the e-book.
In accordance with a supply who demanded 10 copies of the e-book, he informed The Bureau Newspaper on Wednesday that he was informed that henceforth the shop in Abuja had ceased all gross sales of the e-book from their shops.
“Our consideration has been drawn to an injunction sought towards the sale of the e-book in bookstores sought by a SAN in Abuja through which our Firm named was listed. Henceforth we’ve ceased all gross sales of the e-book from our shops,” the supply quoted the textual content the seller despatched to him when he requested for the e-book.
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