A Lagos High Court Judge, Justice Adedayo Akintoye, has debunked claims that she owns a multi-million-dollar luxury flat in the world’s tallest building ‘Burj Khalifa’ in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The judge’s rebuttal followed an online newspaper publication alleging she bought a deluxe three-bed apartment on the 64th Floor of the Khalifa Tower despite her approximately $1,700 per month in salaries and allowances.
The publication claimed that Akintoye, 63, purchased the property using her Nigerian passport number with an expiry date between March 17, 2011, and March 16, 2016.
The decide is assigned to the crook division of the Igbosere High Court of the Lagos State Judiciary.
“Her date of delivery of January 31, 1958, changed into additionally on file as the sole owner of the luxury condo. A comparative really worth of comparable houses in the same Burj Khalifa building fees 11,984,888 United Arab Emirates Dirham or $three.2 million or N1.2 billion,” the booklet alleged.
It claimed similarly that information of Mrs. Akintoye’s passport attached to statistics of the Burj Khalifa condominium, which become dated among 2011 and 2016, “perpetually prove that the belongings become acquired either whilst she was a Justice of the Peace or after becoming a senior decide.”
But the judge, and her husband, Akindele Akintoye, defined the said e-book as “defamatory and injuriously false in each respect.”
They made their rebuttal in a February 24 letter by using their suggest, Prof Taiwo Osipitan, SAN, including the ebook gave “the wrong affect” that both were corrupt.
They said it wrongly cautioned that Justice Akintoye “utilised judicial workplace to accumulate illicit wealth and residences with the lively connivance of her husband, Mr. Akindele Akintoye who has additionally been provided to your business enterprise’s ebook as an accent after the reality to the alleged corrupt sports credited to his wife within the stated publication.”
The legal professional stated: “For the avoidance of doubt, we've unique preparation to the effect that Honourable Justice Adedayo Akintoye does not own (solely or collectively) any flat at Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Consequently, your company’s book is therefore false in every material recognize.”
The choose and her husband made three needs consisting of: “An immediately retraction and apology for the offending ebook. Monetary damages inside the sum of N500 million for the damage and pain….”
In the occasion of the failure to conform “inside 7 days” they threatened to sue for libel.”
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