A journalist, Cyriacus Njoku, has filed a suit before an Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court over refusal of former Senate President Ken Nnamani to reward his intellectual property.
Njoku said after he proposed to the ex-lawmaker to write the book, ‘The Peoples Lawmaker’ in 2021, Nnamani gave him a cheque of N500,000 to publish same and wrote the forward to the book.
Njoku claimed that both of them agreed to share the proceeds of the launch of the book, but to his surprise, the ex-lawmaker presented another book ‘Standing Strong’ on April 21, 2021, and failed to reach out to him for the said launch and presentation.
Njoku, however, demanded the sum of N50 million in compensation against former Senate President.
In his defence, Nnamani submitted that he never agreed with Njoku to write any book, and as such “the issue of any reward of proceeds of the public presentation/launch never arose,” adding that by his claim, the book was never presented or launched at any time.
He, therefore, asks the court to dismiss the suit for being “frivolous, premature, vexatious, unfounded and a sheer waste of the time of this honourable court.”
The court has set October 15 for the hearing of the suit.
