SENIOR lawyers at the weekend expressed different views on the decision of the Supreme Court, which refused a request by the former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh to stay proceedings in his trial before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
Metuh and his company, Destra Investment Limited are being prosecuted by the Federal Government over for the N400 million he allegedly received fraudulently from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) in 2014 had his appeal for a stay of proceedings refused by the apex court.
The lawyers, who were drawn from both the prosecution and defence to review the Supreme Court’s ruling in Metuh’s appeal against the Federal Government, spoke at the J.B Daudu & Co. 1st Annual Criminal Law Review Seminar on the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA), 2015 held at the…
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