Musician and Entrepreneur, Oladapo Oyebanjo, popularly known as D’banj, has sued Seyitan Babatayo, a twitter user, who accused him of rape for N1.5 billion.
This was contained in a suit filed on Friday by his lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, his lawyer, and brought before a federal high court in Abuja.
In the suit, the singer is demanding N1 billion from his accuser for general damages for the embarrassment the allegation has caused his personality.
He is also requesting the accuser to pay N500 million for aggravated, punitive and exemplary damages.
“An order directing the defendant to pay to the claimant, the sum of N1,000,000,000 (One billion naira) only representing general damages over the untold embarrassment, derision, public ridicule, odium, obloquy, marital disharmony, mental agony and psychological trauma which the defendants tweets and publications have caused the claimant,” the suit partly read.
“An order directing the defendant to pay to the claimant, the sum of N500,000,000 (five hundered million) only, representing aggravated, punitive and exemplary damages…”
