Olisa Metuh’s application to to travel to the UK for 5 weeks
for medical checkup has been demised by a A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja
Metuh had applied for permission to travel for treatment of
an undisclosed ailment following his poor health condition.
Ruling on his application this morning, the presiding judge,
Justice Okon Abang, held that the court lacked the jurisdiction to entertain
the application because there was a subsisting order directing Metuh to deposit
his passport with the chief registrar of the high court.
According to Abang, that order had not been set aside, hence
the court would not grant his request.
“This is not a
case of sympathy, but a case of law. This court has no jurisdiction to
entertain this application. The court is not Father Christmas to give to the
defendant what it did not ask for. The application lacks merit. It is
accordingly dismissed. The court cannot set aside its decision.”
The presiding judge also dismissed Metuh’s argument that his
ailment cannot be treated here in Nigeria.
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