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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