DON’T LET ME DIE IN DETENTION, METUH BEGS COURT

 “Even when a defendant, in a trial as this, is due for a routine medical checkup, that ordinarily will grant an application such as this, but we have gone beyond that to show why the court should grant the application’,Etiaba said.

“We have asked the prosecution to make available health personnel to evaluate the health status of the first defendant in this matter, to show our sincerity in our application for him to travel abroad on medical grounds”, he told the court.

However,the prosecution counsel, Sylvanus Tahir, opposed  the application and argued  that the defence has failed to place sufficient materials before the court to warrant it exercise it’s discretion on the application.

Tahir declared that  all the exhibits the defence attached to support the affidavit are un-convincing and that none qualify as a medical report to warrant a critical look by the court to see the defendant’s complaints of ill-health.

The prosecution counsel therefore urged the court to dismiss the application for lacking in merit and consider it as an abuse of court’s process

Penpushing recalled that, Metuh, had earlier been granted a N400 million bail to by the court, on conditions to provide two sureties with N200 million each, while the sureties  must have properties in Maitama district of Abuja. The court also ordered himto also submit his international passport to the Registrar of the court as part of the conditions for his bail.

Meanwhile, the case continues on Thursday for further hearing of the case of the first defendant.