Drama as Court refuses to hear suit challenging closure of school –

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Godwin Tsa, Abuja

A mild drama played out, on Tuesday, at the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, where a vacation Judge, Justice ‎Ijeoma Ojukwu, refused to hear a suit challenging the closure of a private school by First Bank plc.

All entreaties by counsel to the school, WhitePlains British School, Mr. Chukwuma-Machukwu Ume (SAN),  for the court to hear the matter, giving that the summer activities of the school has been disrupted by the closure, failed.

Meanwhile, teachers, workers, students and parents from the school who besieged the courtroom were dejected as Justice Ojukwu ruled no amount of pressure would change her position.

Justice Ojukwu refused to hear the case on the ground that another judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Babatunde Quadri, has started hearing the matter and it was only proper for him to continue.

“The case is not on my cause list and I am not going to hear ‎it. We have met and decided that once somebody has started…



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