{"id":5461,"date":"2019-04-14T22:46:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T22:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=5461"},"modified":"2019-04-14T22:46:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T22:46:44","slug":"chibok-girls-scam-nigerian-lawyer-emmanuel-ogebe-sues-american-newspaper-wall-street-journal-demand-11million-for-assassination-of-character-desires-six-reliefs-in-u-s-court-ogebe-and-hi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/chibok-girls-scam-nigerian-lawyer-emmanuel-ogebe-sues-american-newspaper-wall-street-journal-demand-11million-for-assassination-of-character-desires-six-reliefs-in-u-s-court-ogebe-and-hi\/","title":{"rendered":"Chibok Girls’ SCAM: Nigerian lawyer, EMMANUEL OGEBE sues American newspaper, Wall Street Journal, demand $11million for Assassination of Character…desires six reliefs in U.S. Court * ‘Ogebe and his Nigerian associates fraudulently exploited the ex-hostages for tens of thousands of dollars’-Wall Street Journal * The Wall Street Journal, according to the court papers, published false and defamatory article about Mr. Ogebe on April 13, 2018 on its website and in its print edition of the newspaper, entitled, \u201cThe American Ordeal of the Boko Haram Schoolgirls\u201d * \u201cI deny the accusation. This was a dirty operation and they did a lot of havoc and subterfuge. It is heartbreaking to a philanthropist and humanitarian when you see how heartless people can be. The Chibok saga ultimately left me poorer\u201d-OGEBE BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU\/AMERICAN Foreign Bureau Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Chibok\nGirls’ SCAM:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nigerian\nlawyer, EMMANUEL OGEBE sues American newspaper, <\/strong>Wall\nStreet Journal<\/strong><\/em>,\ndemand $11million for Assassination of Character<\/strong>…desires\nsix reliefs in U.S. Court<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*\n‘Ogebe and his Nigerian associates fraudulently exploited the\nex-hostages for tens of thousands of dollars’-Wall\nStreet Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*\n<\/strong>The\nWall Street Journal<\/strong><\/em>,\naccording to the court papers, published false and defamatory article\nabout Mr. Ogebe on April 13, 2018 on its website and in its print\nedition of the newspaper, entitled, \u201cThe American Ordeal of the\nBoko Haram Schoolgirls\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*\n\u201cI deny the accusation. This\nwas a dirty operation and they did a lot of havoc and subterfuge. It\nis heartbreaking to a philanthropist and humanitarian when you see\nhow heartless people can be. The Chibok saga ultimately left me\npoorer\u201d-OGEBE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\nGEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU\/AMERICAN Foreign Bureau Chief<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HE’S\nA HIGHLY RESPECTED NIGERIAN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ATTORNEY WHO\nCHERISHES FIGHTING FOR THE OPPRESSED, LESS PRIVILEDGED AND\nDOWN-TRODDEN. EMMANUEL OGEBE, a resident of <\/strong>of\nSpringfield in the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA, has rolled out<\/strong>\na multi-million dollar lawsuit against leading United States\nnewspaper <\/strong>The\nWall Street Journal<\/strong><\/em>,\nand its publishers, Dow Jones Company.<\/strong>Ogebe\nwith a hard earned reputation is demanding total monetary damages in\nthe sum of $11 million, among other reliefs, for an alleged false,\nmisleading, defamatory article against his person.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nthe assassination of character case already served in United States\nCourt, documentation from the court dated April 10, 2019 showed that\nOgebe, who is well known for his humanitarian work especially with\nregard to the freed Chibok girls, is seeking six reliefs, namely:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(1)\ncompensatory damages of not less than $10,000,000.00;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n(2)\npunitive damages of not less than$1,000,000.00;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n(3)\nall expenses and costs, including attorneys\u2019 fees;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n(4)\nan apology to be published in various global media of plaintiff\u2019s\nchoosing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. an\n\tinjunction restraining defendants from further defamatory\n\tpublications against the plaintiff\n\t<\/li>
  2. such\n\tother and further relief as the court deems appropriate.\n<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Going\nby the court papers, <\/em>The\nWall Street Journal<\/em>,\npublished the false and defamatory article about Mr. Ogebe on April\n13, 2018 on its website and in its print edition of the newspaper,\nentitled, \u201cThe American Ordeal of the Boko Haram Schoolgirls\u201d.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Joined\nin the suit as defendants are Drew Hinshaw, a Senior Reporter for The\nWall Street Journal. Hinshaw<\/em>,\nwho allegedly authored and published the defamatory article that\ntarnished Mr. Ogebe\u2019s image; Joe Parkinson, the Africa Bureau Chief\nfor The\nWall Street Journal<\/em>,\nwho\nallegedly participated in the writing of the article; and Gbenga\nAkingbule, one of the newspaper\u2019s journalists\nwho also allegedly participated in writing the defamatory article.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The\nplaintiff alleged that the defendants\u2019 purpose in publishing the\narticle was to weave a narrative that depicted the plaintiff as a\ncallous, exploitative, celebrity groupie who was not really assisting\nvictims of terror and was falsely advocating for persecuted\nChristians and was rather advancing only his \u201cpolitical agenda.\u201d\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    He\ncomplained that the offending article \u201cwas itself sensation-seeking\nand obnoxious in its description of the schoolgirls as \u201cthe Boko\nHaram girls\u201d in its ordinary meaning, interpretation and\nunderstanding, conveying they belong to or are owned by the terrorist\ngroup Boko Haram. Its synopsis stated that plaintiff held fund\nraisers for the girls, which funds disappeared while he hobnobbed\nwith the high and mighty. The article was craftily contrived to\nportray plaintiff in the most injurious light.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In\nthe article titled: ‘The\nAmerican Ordeal of the Boko Haram Schoolgirls,’ The Wall Street\nJournal narrated and alleged defamatory claims against Ogebe, by\nmaintaining their management stance that \u201cOgebe\nand his Nigerian associates fraudulently exploited the ex-hostages\nfor tens of thousands of dollars. The\nWall Street Journal<\/em>\nheard from several of the Chibok students in America, as well as\ntheir teachers, counselors, and families, along with officials from\nthe DHS and Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Journal reviewed two\nreports written by the American schools they attended, as well as two\nundisclosed Nigerian governmental investigations that allege Mr.\nOgebe and his Nigerian associates fraudulently exploited the\nex-hostages.\u201cMr.\nOgebe generated a lot of money through these activities and never\nspent a dime to care for their well-being according to one of two\nundisclosed Nigerian government reports accusing him of fraud, citing\ninterviews with the young women and their caretakers. The\ngirls\u2026accused him of using them as money minting machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cMr.\nOgebe generated a lot of money through these activities and never\nspent a dime to care for their well-being according to one of two\nundisclosed Nigerian government reports who accused him of fraud,\nciting interviews with the young women and their caretakers. The\ngirls\u2026accused him of using them as money minting machines.\u201d \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In\nthe same article, The Wall Street Journal said Ogebe denied the\naccusation in the following words in the reported article: \u201cThis\nwas a dirty operation and they did a lot of havoc and subterfuge.\nIt\u2019s heartbreaking to a philanthropist and humanitarian when you\nsee how heartless people can be.\u201d


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    Ogebe\ndenies the accusations against him and says the young Nigerians have\nbeen turned against him by other actors eager to exploit them,\nranging from Nigeria\u2019s government, biographers looking to publish\ntheir story and a former adviser to George H. W. Bush who took two of\nthem to meet President Donald Trump. He says the Chibok saga\nultimately left him poorer. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Chibok Girls’ SCAM: Nigerian lawyer, EMMANUEL OGEBE sues American newspaper, Wall Street Journal, demand $11million for Assassination of Character…desires six reliefs in U.S. Court * ‘Ogebe and his Nigerian associates fraudulently exploited the ex-hostages for tens of thousands of dollars’-Wall Street Journal * The Wall Street Journal, according to the court papers, published false and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}