Client barred from defaming firm over controversial land sale

JUSTICE O.O. Adewunmioshin of the Lagos High Court sitting at Osborne, Ikoyi has barred a client, Kayode Oladipo from making any further videos on all the social media platforms and any other news platform to impugn the character of a property firm, Revolutionplus, and its promoter, Dr Bamidele Onalaja.

The judge’s order followed an application filed by Revolutionplus and Onalaja, praying the court to restrain Oladipo from defaming them in social media.

Recall that the defendant had in a viral video clip accused the firm of failing to allocate over 20 plots of land he bought in 2017.

He also claimed that the company collected N40m from him without allotting him the land he paid for.

The judge in an enrolment order dated February 12, 2024 ordered as follows: “Leave is hereby granted to the applicant restraining the defendant, his agent, privies or other however from further defaming the applicants, by slander or libel, on any social media platform including but not limited to Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok and ‘X’ App (formerly Twitter), in any manner whatsoever, pending full compliance to the Pre-action Protocol in line with the High Court of Lagos State (Expeditious Disposal of Civil cases) Practice Direction No. 2 of 2019.”

The court, thereafter, adjourned the matter to February 29, 2024 for mention.

The applicants said they had initially decided to ignore the matter when the Lagos State Government, through one of its agencies, LASRERA prevailed on both parties to settle amicably, for which the firm acquiesced.