Rivers Monarch Docked For Contempt
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by our Correspondent
One Chief Vincent Nnamdi-Otto has allegedly been docked by a Rivers State High Court for one month for contempt.
Trouble started for the monarch, when he was responding to cross examination from the witness box on a disputed land suit, raised his voice at the presiding judge, requesting to know his interest in the matter.
The monarch, Nnamdi-Otto while further responding to question on if he was aware of an interim order of injunction restraining him from interfering with the land in dispute at Elelenwo, near Port Harcourt, he responded in the negative.
Nnamdi-Otto further claimed that he knew his rival, whom he described as a crook, that the court was condoning him.
As if not enough, the chief walked out of the witness box, hit his palm on the floor and threatened to deal with the judge and his rival, as well as to petition the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and an unnamed minister.
The presiding judge, Justice Aldolphus Enebele, thereafter ordered that Nnamdi-Otto be put back in the witness box and should show cause why he should not be committed to prison for contempt.
Justice Enebele, after listening to the presentation from the lawyers, who condemned his attitude, sentenced him to one month imprisonment before adjourning the substantive matter till May 17, 2021 for the continuation of cross-examination
