Popularly known as Papagomo, he made the announcement to reporters outside a High Court here after failing to get a stay in court ruling ordering him to pay RM800,000 in damages to Opposition de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim over alleged defamatory postings implying the latter had engaged in indecent acts with a man.
Azri, who represented himself before judicial commissioner Rosilah Yop, said he had no money to pay for the damages and wished to pay the sum by instalments of RM100 per month.
He also told the judge he was now a fisherman and had to sell his portal shares to pay for outstanding legal fees.
Earlier, Anwar's counsel Shahid Adli said Rosilah dismissed Azri's stay after stating she found no grounds in granting the stay.
She ordered him to pay cost of RM5,000.
The matter was decided in chambers.
On Feb 28, Rosilah, in her grounds of judgment, said from the evidence adduced, she found the defendant (Azri) was blogger "Papagomo" and he had indeed published defamatory statements on Anwar in the www.papagomo.com blog.
She also said the statements were obnoxious and obscene.
Rosilah awarded RM50,000 in legal costs.
In his suit filed at the High Court registry on March 21 last year, Anwar, 66, claimed that the defendant had posted defamatory statements and uploaded certain images on his website at www.papagomo.com
He stated that the defamatory words implied that he was not fit to be prime minister and that he was irresponsible and could not be trusted.
In his defence statement, Azri denied publishing any word, images, videos which was slanderous of Anwar.
He added that if he was alleged to have published the defamatory postings, he would rely on the defence of qualified privilege, comment and justification. - NST
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