Desmond Iwuchukwu
A Legal Practitioner Alero Adoki Esq has denied reports that she accused Magistrate I. P. Iyiabo of Port Harcourt Magistrate Court of conniving with the Chairman of Khana Local Government Area Bariere Thomas to jail some suspects currently in detention.
The suspects are Chief Dede Popnen, Chief Lekara Yoronee, Chief Monday Deewii, Barisulenua Nbala, Kaananwi Barisua, and Dumbari Tee while others are still at large.
According to a four-count charge, the suspects are being accused of attempted murder as well as running an illegal motor park in Bori, the Khana Local Government headquarters without the approval of the state government.
However, Alero Adoki Esq in a statement said the headline and contents of the said online publication, are untrue and unfounded.
”That on the 13th day of February 2022, one of the clients in the matter with phone number +2348105191353 called me to know how the matter went in Court. I informed him that the learned Magistrate couldn’t take all matters on the cause list for want of time and that his hands are full as the Court had to rise even late”.
”I was surprised to read from another client in the same matter on the 16th of February 2022, the unfounded and frivolous headline about my person asserting damaging views about the position of the matter in court on the 8th of February 2022”
”I wish to use this medium to state emphatically that no such comment was made by my humble self. That, I deny and refute the said publication which states thus; – “I sensed some foul play when the presiding magistrate stated dodging from hearing the matter…that he doesn’t want to hear a matter that will make the state government transfer him to a remote court” “the attitude of the court on the matter is injustice against justice”.
”A statement of this nature is one calculated to casts an aspersion on the character of a presiding Magistrate and definitely goes to the root of the matter. No Counsel, certainly not I, Alero Adoki Esq would make such a comment in a matter lis-pendis”.
Alero Adoki also apologized to the person of Magistrate I. P. Iyiabo, the Office of the Magistrates, and the entire Judiciary for the development.
