Federal High Court, Lagos. Photo: NigeriaInforFM
An Owerri High Court has sentenced the founding father of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Ralph Uwazuruike, to 1 month in jail for disobeying the order of the courtroom to seem in a case by which he's a plaintiff.
Famzn News gathered that the presiding choose, Justice Kemakolam Ojiako, made the order within the civil case HOW/265/2013 between Uwazuruike (plaintiff) and Barr. Chigozie Iheama and others over a land dispute.
Ruling on the movement on discover filed on July 6, 2017, by C.Ok. Okorie, counsel to the defendant, praying the courtroom to commit the plaintiff/contemnor to jail for disobeying the order of the courtroom, Ojiako dominated that “The plaintiff, Chief Raphael Uwazuruike, is hereby discovered responsible of contempt/disobedience to the stated order of courtroom made on April 2, 2017.
“That the plaintiff, Chief Raphael Uwazuruike, is hereby committed/sentenced to prison custody and shall be so detained for a period of one month from the date of his commitment to prison.”
Ojiako additionally restrained Uwazuruike, his brokers, privies or servants from coming into into the stated land pending the dedication of the motion.
The choose adjourned proceedings to July 10, 2018.