VICTOR MUKETE AND OTHERS
V.
NIGERIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION

Brett, Ag. C.J.F(reading the leading judgment)This is an appeal from the decision of the High Court of the Southern Cameroons dismissing the claims of the plaintiffs Victor Mukete, John Mukete and Chief Abel Mukete in three consolidated actions for damages for defamation.

The defamation complained of consists of the following passage in a news programme broadcast by the first respondent on the 4th and 6th July, 1960:-

Mr Daniel Ebako, C.P.N.C. opposition member in the Kumba Town Council, has called on a Commission of Inquiry into the affairs of both the Market and Land Committee of the Council.

He said that areas of land are being allocated to non-natives without consultation and that some section had also been transferred by the Health Officers without documents of transfer.

He alleged that some Missionary Societies were at present engaged in an extensive acquisition of land without due consultation and therefore wanted the Council to specify the extent of their individual lands.

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