Seeks an order of the Federal High Court to declare the placing of the Nigerian Copyright Commission under the Ministry of Justice as a violation of the Nigerian Copyright Act, 2010.
A lawyer, Tosin Ojaomo, has sued President Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, for alleged copyright law violations.
Other defendants in the case include the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed; and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila.
Ojaomo, who is a former special prosecutor with the Presidential Investigation Panel on Recovery of public property, is seeking an order of the Federal High Court to declare the placing of the Nigerian Copyright Commission under the Ministry of Justice as a violation of the Nigerian Copyright Act, 2010.
In the originating summon which will be heard in March 2021 before Justice Evelyin Maha of the Federal High Court, Abuja division, the lawyer is seeking a declaration that, going by sections 50 and 51 of the Nigerian Copyright Commission Act 2010, the third defendant by the is the rightful minister to supervise and perform all statustory functions provided for the Nigerian Copyrights Commission Act, 2010.
The summon read in part, “A declaratioan that all the appointments made by the first defendant to the position of director-general of the Nigerian Copyright Commission relying on the statutory recommendation of the second defendant in contravention of the combined provisions of sections 37 (1) and 51 of the Copyright Act, 2010, is null and void and of no legal effect.”
