The CEO of CrossRiverWatch, an investigative media outfit with it’s headquarters in Calabar the capital of Cross River State Nigeria South south region, Activist Agba Jalingo has been charged to Federal High Court of Nigeria Abuja Judicial Division for alleged defamation of character.
In the suit dated, December 06, 2022, filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja, the police claimed that the publication by the journalist against Elizabeth Ayade, the wife of Frank Ayade – a brother of the Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade was false and was released for the purpose of causing her annoyance, ill will and insult.
The first charge sheet says, “That you Agba Jalingo male of No.14 Oremeji Street, Ojudu Alapere Lagos on 30th June, 2022 within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did intentionally Published online at CrossRiverWatch and alleged that one Mrs Elizabeth, Ayade Procured the services of one Pascal Aboh to write Nigeria Law School Examination Bar Examination for her an information you know to be false for the purpose of causing her annoyance, ill will and insult. You thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 24(1) b of CYBERCRIMES (PROTECTION, PREVENTION ETC) ACT, 2015.
The second charge also read “That you Agba Jalingo male of No.14 Oremeji Street, Ojudu Alapere Lagos on 30th June, 2022 within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did intentionally Published at your Facebook page known as Agba Jalingo procured the services of one Pascal Aboh to write Nigeria Law School Examination Bar Examination for her, an information you know to be false for the purpose of causing her annoyance, ill will and insult. You thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 24(1) b of CYBERCRIMES (PROTECTION, PREVENTION ETC) ACT, 2015.
Truth Live News gathered that one Paschal Aboh, a suspended law lecturer at the University of Calabar, was arrested for impersonating and re-sitting an exam for a student at the school.
The lecturer was suspected to have written the examination for Elizabeth Frank Ayade, the wife of the Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade.
You would recall that in August 2022, Activist Jalingo after hours of laying siege to his Lagos residence for allegedly defaming the character of Elizabeth was arrested and detained by the police but was later released after some days in detention.
