Afe Babalola, a prominent Nigerian lawyer, has taken legal action against Dele Farotimi, a human rights lawyer and activist, seeking to halt the publication and distribution of Farotimi's new book, Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System.
Babalola's lawsuit alleges that the book defames him by accusing him of corruption and complicity in undermining Nigeria's judicial system.
He has requested court orders to seize all royalties from the book and to block its availability on platforms like Amazon.
The order for the seizure of Mr Farotimi’s book came after it reportedly became number one bestseller in global politics for international tech and retail giant Amazon, on Thursday.
The order stated, “A order of interlocutory injunction restraining the defendant/respondent, whether acting by himself, his staff, employees, servants, privies, representatives, agents, publishers, distributors, sellers, re-publishers, re-sellers, or any other person however described including Amazon Online Bookstore, Rovingheights Bookstore, Booksellers bookstore, Jazzhole Lagos Bookstore, Glendora Bookshop, Quintessence Lagos Bookstore and Patabah Books Limited from further publishing, selling, circulating, advertising, or distributing the physical/hard/digital/soft copies of the book authored by the defendant/respondent titled: “Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System,” online. An order of interlocutory injunction directing the seizure of all physical copies of the book authored by the defendant/respondent titled: “Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System” wherever they may be.’’
The controversial book highlighted among others how Mr Babalola allegedly manipulated the judiciary to get favourable judgements for his clients.
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