Thursday 25 October 2012

EX-SABAH AG SUES TWO SOCIAL ACTIVISTS





DEFAMATION.... Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) panelist seeks RM50 million in defamation suit against Sabah singer-activist Atama and a social activist.

By : FMT STAFF

KOTA KINABALU: Former state attorney-general Herman Luping has filed a RM50 million defamation suit against popular local rapper Atama (photo) and a social activist.

Luping, recently appointed a member of the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on illegal immigrants in the state, named Atama whose real name is Andrew Ambrose and SM Muthu as first and second defendants in the suit filed to the High Court this week.

The former AG and Deputy Chief Minister during the Usno era is seeking an injunction against the defendants restraining them from making defamatory remarks about him and an order to remove an offending article from FMT.

He is claiming punitive damages, statutory interest and other relief deemed fit by the court.

In his statement of claim, Luping said Atama, a musician and spokesman for Bersih Sabah and Muthu, an ex-civil servant turned social activist posted malicious statements against him on Twitter, Facebook and FMT.

According to Luping the article entitled ‘Luping appointment came under fire’, published by FMT on Aug 13 this year, had seriously injured his character and his reputation has been brought into scandal and hurt his feelings.

The statements made by the two, he said, were calculated to make negative and false inferences of him, namely that he could not be trusted, is not fit to be in the RCI, is dishonest with low integrity, not credible and a criminal.

He also claimed the the first defendant’s statements in Facebook and Twitter on Aug 12, 2012 were calculated to make negative and false inferences of him as a corrupt politician and a person who could not be trusted.

Luping said the second defendant also alluded to this same sentiment in his postings in Facebook. The suit was filed through his lawyer Marcel Jude.

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