{"id":92830,"date":"2022-03-14T19:10:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T18:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=92830"},"modified":"2022-03-14T19:10:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T18:10:11","slug":"court-awards-n3-5m-to-journalist-over-invasion-of-privacy-by-efcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/court-awards-n3-5m-to-journalist-over-invasion-of-privacy-by-efcc\/","title":{"rendered":"Court awards N3.5m to journalist over invasion of privacy by EFCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1727297198343336738\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Justice Thomas Johnson of the Federal High Court, Umuahia,Abia State, has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to pay N3.5 million to a journalist, Nora Okafor, over the invasion of her privacy.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Court further ordered the Commission to tender an apology to the journalist in two national newspapers for illegally invading her privacy.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">EFCC operatives had raided Okafor\u2019s home on the night of September 23, 2021. The operatives who were believed to have stormed Umuahia in search of suspected internet fraudsters held the journalist and other residents of the building hostage for over two hours.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The victims were later released when the EFCC operatives discovered that it was a case of mistaken identity.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Okafor who works with a cable television station, Modern Communications Limited, MCL TV, in Umuahia, said she was humiliated and traumatized by the incident and described the verdict as justice served.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Thomas Johnson of the Federal High Court, Umuahia,Abia State, has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to pay N3.5 million to a journalist, Nora Okafor, over the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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