US based Human Rights Lawyer sues FG over Chibok girls

A Nigerian born United States based human rights activist and lawyer, Mr. Emmanuel Ogebe, on Thursday, dragged the federal government to court over 10 Chibok girls schooling in the US.
Mr. Ogebe, through his lawyer, Barrister David Ogebe, is asking the court to award $5m damage against the federal government in his favour for alleged defamation.
Defendants in the suit are the Attorney-General of the Federation, the Minister of Women Affairs, Hajia Aisha Alhassan and her ministry.
In the suit, the plaintiff accused Hajia Alhassan of telling the world at a news conference that the 10 Chibok girls his organisation took to the US for studies are not In school.
According to processes filed in court, the plaintiff said around June 2014, he and some humanitarians who are indigenes of Borno state conceived the “study abroad project” specifically to assist the abducted/escaped Chibok schoolgirls after observing during a United States of America congressional fact-finding trip at the time that nothing was being done for them individually and as a group.
To actualize the project, the Education Must Continue Initiative (EMCI) was duly birthed as a non-governmental organization under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act Cap C20 LFN 2004 to serve as the charity to provide quality education for the escaped Chibok school girls and other victims of the insurgency.
He said through the EMCI and his personal efforts, 10 of the escaped Chibok schoolgirls were granted admission with full scholarships in the United States and were subsequently taken to the US where they were enrolled in and began school within a week of their arrival with the Plaintiff duly authorized as their Guardian by their respective families.
But according to the plaintiff, despite his effort to get the 10 Chibok girls to study abroad, the women affairs minister came out to say that the girls are not schooling in the US.
He is asking the court for the sum of $5m as exemplary and aggravated damage.
The US based lawyer is also asking for an order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants either by themselves or through their privies, from further defaming his character whether by print, electronic or online media.