National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh, has been hit by a court case instituted against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) even as a Federal High Court Abuja dismissed his application seeking to abridge time for the hearing of his fundamental rights enforcement suit.
His lawyer, Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN), filed the suit to challenge the continuous detention of his client without a formal charge.
At the hearing of the suit, Adedipe made an oral application for abridge of time to expedite hearing of the substantive suit.
He said his client was arrested on January 5 and the EFCC has been holding him without the leave of Court.
Adedipe said Metuh’s rights are being violated without recourse to the extant provisions of the 1999 Constitution.
He urged the court to stand the case down till 2pm to allow EFCC file its reply.
The EFCC lawyer, Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), opposed the application.
Jacobs said: “My Lord, we are opposed to the ingenuity of the counsel to the applicant to deny us fair hearing.
“We were just served with the process this morning.
“So standing the matter down till 2pm as prayed will be most unfair.
“I urge the Court to dismiss such attempt and allow us the benefit of the five days allowed by the rules of the Court to file our response.”
In a short ruling, Justice Abang Okon held that the rules of the court do not allow for such benefit as requested by the applicant.
Okon said: “The substantive application for the enforcement of fundamental rights was filed by the applicant on January 8.
“The suit was assigned to this Court on January 12 and the respondent was served on January 13.
“We are always guided by the rules of the Court and, therefore, the respondent deserves the right to a mandatory five days within which to file response.
“In the light of this, the prayer for the abridgement of time in order to hear the substantive application today is hereby dismissed.
“The respondent is given up to January 19 to file response.
“The matter is hereby adjourned till January 20 for hearing.”
The judge, however, said the applicant’s prayer might have been considered if the respondent was not opposed to it.
Speaking to newsmen after the session, Jacobs said the EFCC has not violated the rights of Metuh and he would soon be arraigned.
Jacobs said: “Already, a formal charge has been filed against Metuh and he will soon be arraigned.
“On the backdrop of public criticisms, Metuh is held in detention up till now on the strength of a leave of Court.
“We believe in the rule of law and interplay of justice.”
On his part, Adedipe insisted that the EFCC is holding his client without the leave of Court.
Meanwhile the Metuh, who was picked up at his Abuja residence on January 5, was today, arraigned before Justice Okon Abang of the Court 10, Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja.
The PDP spokesman was arraigned by the EFCC for allegedly collecting about N400 million from the former National Security Adviser (NSA), retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki, from the money alleged to be part of the $2.1 billion arms procurement fund, a charge to which he pleaded not guilty.
Metuh had before his arrest, agreed that he collected an undisclosed sum of money from former President Goodluck Jonathan, in order to carry out some assignment as the spokesperson for the then ruling PDP. [myad]
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