A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has remanded Chief Vincent Nnamdi Otto in prison for what the court described as contemptuous action and threat.
Chief Otto had while responding to cross-examination from the witness box on a disputed land suit, shouted at the presiding Judge, requesting to know his interest in the matter.
While responding to a question on whether he was aware of an interim order of injunction restraining him from interfering with the land in dispute at Elelenwo Community in Obio-Akpor Local Government, Otto claimed that he wasn’t aware that there was such an order.
He added that he knows his rival who he described as crooks and that the court was condoning the crooks.
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Our Correspondent reports that Chief NNAMDI-OTTO further walked out of the witness box, hit his palm on the floor of the court and threatened to deal with them all and to Petition President MUHAMMADU BUHARI and an unnamed Minister.
The Presiding Judge Justice ADOLPHUS ENEBELI after watching the drama ordered that Chief NNAMDI-OTTO be put back in the box and should show cause why he should not be committed to prison for contempt.
Justice ENEBELI after hearing from all the Counsels present at the court who condemned the attitude of the Chief, remanded him in prison for one month and adjourned to 17th May 2021 for the continuation of cross-examination.
