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Monarch seeks Chief Judge’s intervention in alleged plot to dethrone him

By Bertram Nwannekanma
12 July 2016   |   2:37 am
The Oba of Shasha Kingdom in Alimosho local council of Lagos State, Oba Babatunde Ogunronbi has sought the intervention of the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta ...
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The Oba of Shasha Kingdom in Alimosho local council of Lagos State, Oba Babatunde Ogunronbi has sought the intervention of the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta over alleged plots by some persons working in connivance with a Judge of the court to forcefully and unlawfully dethrone him as the Oba of Shasha kingdom.

The Monarch in a letter to the Justice Ibrahim Auta asked him to use his good offices to check what he called ‘flagrant abuse of judicial powers by Justice Musa Kurya of the Federal High court, Lagos in suit No. FHC/L/CS/1665/2013 between Babatunde Ismail and others v. Inspector General of Police and others’.

In the letter dated June 28, 2016 and made available to The Guardian, the monarch alleged that Justice Kurya on May 23, 2016, blatantly refused to hear his lawyer who wanted to move an application for stay of execution but openly called one Alhaji Abdul-Rauf Tijani, not being a lawyer to address the court for more than one hour on behalf of other parties and urged him to present warrant of execution for him to sign for the execution of a judgment he had earlier delivered against the petitioner.

According to the petitioner, the judgment which Justice Kurya has openly declared his intention to sign a warrant of execution is in respect of a chieftaincy matter.

The monarch said the judge denied audience to his lawyer onthe ground that there was no stamp of the Court of Appeal on the Notice of Appeal, despite the fact that the notice of Appeal is usually filed at the Registry of the Federal High Court.

The case, he said was filed by way of enforcement of fundamental human rights. According to him, the application was argued by a non lawyer but judgment was granted against him in the sum of N30 million within two months of filing the case.

He stressed that the said judgment was appealed against and Justice Kurya himself ordered stay of execution and an injunction pending determination of the appeal but later overruled himself and vacated the stay.

The petitioner further stated that two of the applicants in the suit had applied to the judge to set aside the judgment on grounds of fraud and misrepresentation, even when the said judgment was in their favour.

The petition copied to the Chairman of National Judicial Council, followed previous petitions to the chief Judge dated March 4, 2014 and May 31, 2016 on the same issue.

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