Human rights lawyer, Iniebehe Effiong has said that history will vindicate him after he was sent to prison by an Akwa Ibom High Court judge.
Effiong who was in court on continuation of a case of libel involving Governor Udom Emmanuel and Effiong Bob, was ordered remanded in jail for one one month over allegations that he had uttered some statements against the judge.
See His Account Below:
The moment My Lord entered the Courtroom, His Lordship ordered the orderly attached to the court to go out and bring the armed policemen inside the courtroom. I started feeling that there was going to be trouble. After the Premium Times reporter was sent out, I raised the issue.
I applied to the Court to ask the armed policemen with AK47 to leave the courtroom, that it was not proper and that I felt extremely unsafe and uncomfortable. My Lord then started writing, I thought it was going to be a ruling on my application to excuse the officers.
Unknown to me, my Lord was writing committal order to send me to Uyo prison. I wasn’t even given the opportunity to say anything. My Lord just ordered me to remove my wig and gown, that I was going to prison.
Meanwhile, we have a pending motion for my Lord to disqualify and recuse himself from the case on grounds of bias or likelihood of bias which.
History will vindicate the just.