A former General Manager of Vision FM radio in Kaduna Alh Yakubu Lere has filed a human rights case against the police and the chairman Vision Media Services Umar Faruq Musa demanding payment of N20 million as compensation.
Dateline Nigeria had earlier reported how Kaduna based businessman Mahdi Shehu demolished part of the structure housing Vision FM accusing the chairman of the station of tarnishing his reputation.
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Mahdi, in a press conference, said Lere lost his position at the radio station for trying to broker peace between the two feuding parties.
In the suit filed before state High Court 9 NDA Kaduna, Lere said he earlier filed a case of criminal defamation of character and injurious falsehood against Umar Faruq Musa before the chief magistrate court Ibrahim Taiwo road Kaduna.
However, he said, instead of the defendant to present himself before the court, he went to the police with a fake and biased external audit report and asked the police to investigate a matter already before a court of competent jurisdiction.
Lere urged the court to order the police to stop inviting him and direct Umar Faruq Musa to pay him the sum of N20; million as compensation.
The case comes up on 23rd of this month for hearing.
In another development, the National Industrial Court Kaduna division has fixed 2nd December 2021 to commence hearing in another suit filed by Alh Yakubu Lere demanding payment of over N4 million against Umar Faruq and one other.
In the suit, Lere claimed that the chairman deceived him into accepting the offer as General Manager of the station by assuring him that all that is needed for him to succeed would be provided only to be told at late hour that the management doesn’t have funds for the take-off or day to day running of the station.
He said he was left to source for cost of diesel of the two generators and other needs of the station.
Alh Yakubu Lere also claimed that he was asked between October and December 2019 to recruit and train staff, create contents and program schedule of the station on a mutual understanding arrangements that he would be paid later but the chairman defaulted.
