Three residents of Dakwa community in the FCT, Alhaji Yahaya Cash & Carry, Engr Tanko Adamu and Auwal Navy, have threatened to take legal action against a community leader, Muhammad Alkwandawi, over his reported remarks accusing them of plotting to assassinate him.
City & Crime reports that Alkwandawi, an Islamic cleric, popularly known as Sarkin Malamai, had been in police custody for almost two weeks over an investigation that was yet to be disclosed by the FCT Police Command.
Meanwhile, in a new development, Cash & Carry, Engr Adamu and Navy, demanded Alkwandawi to retract the remark and also apologise for linking his arrest and the raid of his home by a team of solders to them.
The aggrieved, through their lawyer, Nureni Sulyman, gave the cleric seven days to tender an apology through his social media group platform, Khadimul Islam Foundation, where the allegation was reportedly made, as well as in two national dailies, or face legal action.
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Sulyman wrote, “The post that you published is defamatory and not in any way true. In effect, you have maliciously misrepresented our clients in the public glare by deliberately infusing false, dishonest and untrue assertion against them unto the minds of right-thinking members of the society in order to ridicule, shame and make the general public to hate and scorn our clients.”
Contacted on phone, the cleric denied the allegation, adding that he was ready to meet them in any court of law.
He maintained that he had been in police custody, not detention, for his safety over threats on his life.
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