The Akwa Ibom State High Court presided by the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Ekaette Obot, has ordered a Lagos-based lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, to be remanded in jail for one month over what she called “contemptuous and insulting behaviour in court.”
She said that the lawyer would use the correctional facility to purge himself of insolence and dishonourable acts that tended to bring the court to disrepute.
The court which sat in the case of libel by Governor Udom Emmanuel against Mr Leo Ekpenyong, was on its last day for the prosecution to end its case.
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