Ozo Jeff Nweke drags Anambra CP, PSC to court, demands N200mllions damages

Maduako Igbokwe

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of private security company, Blue Shield Security Company Limited, Ozo Jeff Nweke has draged Anambra State Commissioner of Police CP Aderemi Adeoye and Police Service Commission to Anambra State High court sitting in Awka for defamation of character.

Ozo Jeff Nweke said CP Aderemi Adeoye had made a publication titled " Brief on Criminal Antics of Ozo Jeff Nweke, owner of Blue Shield Security Company, against state CID, Awka and Anambra State Police command" and published on social media.


He said the social media publication has tarnished his image and brought him low in the estimation of every right thinking person in the society.

In a suit number A/390/2023 , Ozo Jeff Nweke is claiming the of N200 millions general damages against the CP and Police Service Commission.


The plaintiff is also praying for the court to order the respondents to write an apology to him and be published in two national daily newspapers and granting perpetual injunction restraining the defendants from further publication of any defamatory matter against him.
In a statement of claim by his lawyers G.U Moneke Esq and J.O Ezeh Esq, Ozo Jeff Nweke claimed that Adeoye for no justifiable reason do published in social media a defamatory matter against him and since then people and his business associate have been avoiding him.



He said that Adeoye publication has completely maligned his reputation and diminished his integrity in estimation of every Awka man and in the eyes of all right thinking men in the society who read the publication.

He also claimed that as an Ozo title holder, the publication has reduced him and bought him low in the estimation of men in the society and his company has lost patronage over the publication.

He also claimed that as a community leader in Awka who enjoy followership and respect of his people,that after the publication his own people have deserted him, and his home which was a beehives of activities whenever he was around is now a ghost centre as hardly will any one notice his presence.

He also claimed that the publication portrayed him as mischievous man,a man without honour,a man without integrity,a double edge sword,a man without positive reputation and trouble masker who is not truthworthy.

Ozo Jeff Nweke also claimed that since after the publication people he had business with have been calling him in derogatory manners, telling him that they never knew he is criminal

He urged the court to stop the defendants from further publication of defamatory matter against him as they will not stop unless the court ordered .