Olisa Metuh Case : Now that Justice Okon Abang has overruled all the medical reports , is he now a Medical Doctor ?

By Ikechukwu Emeka Onyia

Justice Abang who his court has received over 4 different medical opinions both documented and oral, authenticating that Olisa Metuh is sick and needs medical attention abroad , but chose to make this statement :

“I am wondering, with every sense of responsibility if the 1st defendant (Metuh) is really ill to warrant him being brought to court on a stretcher.

“I have my doubt if the 1st defendant is actually sick”.
- Justice Okon Abang
(20th, April 2018 )

When has doctors stripped the power to ascertain one's health conditions and handed same to a Judge without any medical training for such ?

Now look at these :

(1) University of Nigeria ,Teaching Hospital (UNTH) says that Olisa Metuh is sick and needs urgent medical attention abroad.

(2) Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital ( NAUTH) says he is sick and needs medical attention beyond the hospital .

(3) National Hospital Abuja , medical report shows that Olisa Metuh is sick and needs urgent medical attention .
In the case of National Hospital , their record shows that Olisa Metuh has over ten(10) files at the Hospital on this particular medical issue .This shows that his spinal related case did not start today and neither was it due to his ongoing matter at court as some erroneously believe .

(4) Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) medical report on Olisa Metuh stated that he is sick and needed Medical attention abroad.

(5) Medical Doctor attached to Federal High Court ,Abuja reported that from her checks , that the patient needs urgent medical care .

(6) Note : all the above mentioned hospitals are highly respected Federal Medical Establishments !

(7) Can all these Hospitals and Doctors be wrong ?

Is Justice Okon Abang a Doctor ?

( Justice Okon Abang once earlier this year , stated that his court will not entertain any other medical report from any hospital in Nigeria on Olisa Metuh's health .

(9) on 23rd May ,2019 , the same Justice Okon Abang that pronounced that he will not entertain any medical report from any hospital in Nigeria on Olisa Metuh's health issue again .

But in a contradictory move, the same Justice Abang when Metuh's Counsel reminded him about his client's health development based on what happened on 22nd May , he overruled the Counsel on the premise that there was no medical report attached in regards to throwing more light on what transpired later after Chief Olisa Metuh who was moved from the Court to the National Hospital Abuja inside a Federal High Court Ambulance

(10) it is of note that we have cases of Courts granting defendant's request to travel for medical attention even without stress and even where that option us at the discretion of the court .

What is the problem that makes Chief Metuh's case so different and peculiar to the point of giving room to the present prevalent feelings of persecution now ?

@OP, when you have medical reports from multiple sources of equal status, then know there is problem.

Metuh's rotten antecedents precedes him. He has displayed several gimmicks to frustrate his trial since 2015 under the same Judge Abang. It is only human for the judge ton be circumspect of Metuh.

Nothing stops a sick suspect from facing trial. If he had done the right thing at the right time, he wouldn't be in this self inflicted mess.