A Federal Capital Territory High Court judge, Justice
Valentine Ashi, on Wednesday ordered security agents, including the police and
operatives of the Department of State Service, to confiscate the latest book of
ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, My Watch.
The judge of the FCT Wuse Zone II court said the publication
of the book, which was presented to the public on Tuesday in Lagos, contravened
the order of the court restraining the publication.
Justice Ashi also gave Obasanjo 21 days within which to
explain why he should not be punished for flouting the court order.
He ordered that the enrolled orders of the court be served
on all media houses in the country and be equally served on the defendant by
publication in two national daily newspapers.
The judge held, “I hold the defendant not only in contempt
of the court, but to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt and
ordered to undo what he has wrongly done.
“The defendant, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, shall be given 21
days, from the day this order is served on him, to show cause, via affidavit,
why he should not be punished for contempt committed by publishing and
distributing for sale to the public, the book, My Watch, in plain disregard of
the pendency of substantive suit and the order of this court made on December
5, 2014 restraining him from doing so......READ MORE>>
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