with Jamaica and Namibia.
“I went to the office of the Auditor-General (of the Federation), and requested for a comprehensive audit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” he said.
When Ejeh asked about the outcome of investigations into the malfeasance, Onyeama’s lawyer, Agada Elachi, SAN, raised an objection.
Determined to get a response, Ejeh pressed further asking if the allegations were true or false, Elachi objected to the question.
“These questions are immaterial as they have nothing to do with the issues at hand,” the lawyer said while objecting to several other questions bordering on his client’s roles as foreign minister.
The objections were sustained by the judge.
Onyeama informed the court that Onoh “forwarded several media articles to his phone number.”
The minister disclosed that many people advised her to “desist from those libellous emanating from the social media,” but that she would not listen.
“She wrote to me, indicating that I was trying to prevent certain media houses from publishing her defamatory articles,” Onyeama said in his reply to Ejeh’s enquiry as to how Onoh sponsored media houses to defame him.
After the cross-examination exercise, the ex-minister informed the court that he had concluded his suit against the defendant.
Subsequently, the judge adjourned the case until 12 February for Onoh to commence her defence in the suit.
