A former spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, has disengaged two Senior Advocates of Nigeria leading his defence in his N400m money laundering case before the Federal High Court in Abuja.

He immediately replaced the two senior lawyers with another lawyer, Mr. Abel Ozioko, who appeared in the case for the first time on Wednesday.

Metuh’s decision to disengage the two SANs – Dr. Onyechi Ikpezu and Mr. Emeka Etiaba (SAN) – came barely 24 hours after the senior lawyers filed an application for withdrawal as the defendant’s counsel.

Justice Okon Abang had on March 5, 2019, fixed Wednesday for the hearing of the SANs’ application.

But before the scheduled hearing, Metuh had written to the SANs disengaging them as his lawyers.


The two SANs had been leading his defence since January 2016 when the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission preferred the charges against him.

Metuh and his firm, Destra Investment Limited, are being prosecuted by the EFCC on money laundering charges, involving allegations that they both fraudulently took the sum N400m from the Office of the National Security Adviser “when they reasonably ought to know” that the money was part of the proceeds of alleged criminal act of then NSA, Sambo Dasuki.


The ex-PDP’s spokesperson was also accused of transacting with cash of $2m without going through a financial institution in violation of a provision of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act.

At the Wednesday’s proceedings, Ikpeazu, informed the judge that his application seeking an order permitting him and his law firm to withdraw from the case had been overtaken by event following the Metuh’s letter of disengagement of his law firm.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/metuh-drops-sans-engages-new-lawyer-to-defend-him-in-money-laundering-case/amp/

I don't understand how a man can drop 2 SANs only to hire a lawyer who isn't a SAN

Court tension has reach a boiling point..he had no choice now.

oyebanji44:
Court tension has reach a boiling point..he had no choice now.

I don't understand please. Care to explain further?

peacettw:
I don't understand how a man can drop 2 SANs only to hire a lawyer who isn't a SAN

Lawyers trying to make a name will be more aggressive

aolawale025:


Lawyers trying to make a name will be more aggressive

Really? Is favourable judgement gotten by aggression or superior argument?

aolawale025:


Lawyers trying to make a name will be more aggressive

I understand. The money might also be an incentive

Olisa Metuh see you see Prison

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Thieves

The SANs don't want to be associated with a lost case.

aolawale025:


Lawyers trying to make a name will be more aggressive

No, it is must be the legal fees, he has calculated how much he is paying them per sitting and how much he made. Spending about 100m on a case of 400m you might lose, then it will be a double loss

Money don finish


If u know u know


U think it is easy for u to Pay a SAN’s court appearance fee ?

good for looters

Money to pay SANs has finished.

peacettw:
I don't understand how a man can drop 2 SANs only to hire a lawyer who isn't a SAN

Spending without result from them

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They are thief all together

What is difficult to understand here?

His calculations for 2019 have failed him and he has now run out of money to maintain these expensive SANS. We will see similar things happening with Onnoghen and Dasuki.

So because they are SANs
They cannot be dropped
When we have more vibrant lawyers that know the recent trends in law

He should hire the CJN. Case closed.

Ok

U dey do a N400m case you hire two SANs, are you a learner? The two of them go even collect pass the embezzled amount from you. Btw, a lawyer won't help you either.

Why will not drop the Sand Sand when they want to take all his loots from him all in the name of legal fees

Failed country!

Metuh is suffering because he's an obstinate being.

All he had to do was fess up to EFCC, making a payment plan for said sum.

Rather he played to the gallery (guillotine more like) and as usual, he had those who always egg one on to his destruction.

He ate the document in which he had earlier accepted some guilt.

He lampooned the trial judge.

Karma is unforgiving.

Perhaps his treatment of teachers at the school his kids studied came back full circle.

PDP even abandoned him.

Karma.