Abel Ozioko, counsel to Olisa Metuh, says he is ready to
appeal the judgment of the federal high court in Abuja which sentenced his
client to 39 years in prison.
Okon Abang, the trial judge, had convicted Metuh, a former
spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on seven counts of money
laundering.
On counts one and two, Metuh bagged seven years each; on
count three, five years; count four, seven years; counts five and six, three
years each and he got seven years for count 7.
The judge held that all the years are to run concurrently,
meaning Metuh would spend seven years in prison.
“We have our appeal in our hands, I still have confidence in
the law courts and we are heading upstairs to the three wise men to know
whether he is right or wrong,” he said.
Metuh, who was dressed in a navy blue “kaftan”, used
crutches to aid his movement. Two of his sisters and other members of his
family and friends were in court.
He didn’t look sober but smiled all through even when was
being taken away in a green bus owned by the Nigerian Correctional Service,
formerly known as Nigerian Prison Service.
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