Judge Denies Having Any Relationship with Metuh

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Judge Denies Having Any Relationship with Metuh

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Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has denied having both social and work relationship with the embattled National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh. The judge, who is currently handling the case against Metuh further stated that he did not know Metuh during his (the judge) practice as a lawyer and while in school. Justice Abang in his response dated March 23, to a petition written against him by the PDP scribe to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta said, “With respect to the first issue that the petitioner Emeka Etiaba (SAN) stated that the 1st defendant in Charge FHC/ABJ/CR/05/2016 was my classmate in the Nigerian Law School, my Lord, for the records, I was at the Law School in 1987/88 Academic Session. “I am not aware that Olisa Metuh was my classmate in the Nigerian Law School.  I cannot recall seeing him in the time session in my time. In the law school, we were over 1,000 students and we had then two sessions, morning that I attended. “He is not from my place, Oron, in Akwa Ibom State. I did not see him as a student in University of Calabar that I attended from September 1983 to June 1987. “I have never met him in practice anywhere in the country before I was elevated to the bench in June 2009. Again, he claimed he met me in Le’ Mariden Uyo late last year. “I was not in  Le’ Meriden Uyo late last year .  I had no function that I attended in Le’ Meriden Uyo late last year. I did not meet him in Le’ Meriden Uyo late last year. “If the records show that he is a lawyer and was called to Nigerian Bar on November 3, 1988, which record I am yet to see, that cannot affect the facts and the law. “I attended recently my class reunion meeting in Abuja, Lagos and Enugu, I did not see Olisa Metuh in the places I mentioned.  I am not related to Olisa Metuh in any way, I do not know where he comes from. It would be recalled that Metuh had in his petition written against the trial judge by his lawyer, Emeka Etiaba (SAN), put up a claim that Justice Abang was his classmate at the Law School in 1988 and that he last met the judge late last year at the Meridien Hotel, Akwa Ibom. The PDP scribe expressed the fear that he could not get justice before the judge, whom he accused of bias and of deliberately refusing to release records of proceedings to enable him to appeal the judge’s earlier decisions. Metuh had urged Justice Auta to transfer his case to another judge to start afresh. Specifically, Metuh, alongside his company, Destra Investment Limited were docked before Justice Abang in January on a seven-count charge, wherein they were accused of retaining proceeds of the unlawful act and engaging in money laundering.

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