Tuesday, 8 March 2016

Press statement from Barr. Emeka Etiaba, SAN, counsel to Olisa Metuh

Perused the press explanation underneath...

Deluding and Malicious Reports Against Chief Olisah Metuh

Our consideration
has been attracted to underhanded and misdirecting pictures and stories in the Punch daily papers, asserting that our customer, Chief Olisah Metuh, was in the Federal High Court Abuja on Monday, March 7, 2016 "to show support" for the previous Chief of Defense Staff, resigned Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh.

This is false, underhanded and invented to deceive the general population and undermine the notoriety of our customer. Give us a chance to state, for the record, that Chief Metuh was in court on the day being referred to, being the deferred date for the common suit he documented against his unlawful detainment by the EFCC. It was absolutely unplanned that the previous CDS was additionally being charged in the same court on that day. This clarifies our customer's vicinity in the same court with the previous CDS.

Our customer was in court with his legal counselors and his case was heard in the open court, as saw by general society and writers, including the Punch columnist and photograph writer, wherein Justice Abang conceded the judgment to Wednesday March 9, 2016. It is accordingly bewildering and frustrating that the Punch reporter, being completely mindful of the previous truths, went past his brief and the morals of his calling to develop and distribute bends against our customer.

We are influenced this is a conscious conveyance by an acquired specialists, intended to make hurt our customer and distort him in the psyches of people in general. We welcome Nigerians to review, steady with an example of manufactures against our customer, that the EFCC later abjured its before false claim that Chief Metuh ate his composed proclamation at the EFCC office.

We likewise welcome Nigerians to take note of the naughtiness coordinated at the individual of Chief Metuh, utilizing a segment of the media, in the offer to paint him in awful light and potentially wreck the course of equity. In any case, this is futile, as the matter is under the watchful eye of a court of able purview.

At long last, we encourage the media to please end the superfluous sensationalization of issues and guarantee that actualities are cross-checked before production.

Marked: Barr. Emeka Etiaba (SAN)

Guidance to Chief Olisa Metuh

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