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N5bn Libel Suit: ‘We Don’t Have DSS Report Linking Magu To Maitaima Properties’
The Sun Newspapers has told an Ikeja High Court in Lagos that it does not have a copy of the Department of State Services (DSS) report which allegedly linked Mr Ibrahim Magu, the Acting Chairman of the EFCC to two properties in Maitama, Abuja.
Our correspondent reports that an article published by The Sun Newspapers on March 25, 2017 titled “Magu Under Fresh Probe Over Two Abuja Mansions” was alleged by the media house to be based on the DSS report.
A defence witness, Ms Frances Okonkwo, who is a lawyer employed by The Sun Newspapers made the disclosure at an Ikeja High Court during proceedings of a N5billion libel suit Magu filed against the media house.
Okonkwo while being cross-examined by Mr Wahab Shittu, the counsel to the claimant, said that a copy of the alleged DSS report was not in the possession of The Sun Newspaper.