For allegedly obtaining a fraudulent judgment, gross misconduct and acts unbecoming of a legal practitioner a real estate firm Abey Signatures Limited has dragged a legal practitioner Henry Otu of the Law Firm of Law Corridor before the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee(LPDC) asking for sanctions against the lawyer for actions unbecoming of a legal practitioner.
In the petition signed by the Chairman of the Company Cecil Osakwe he urged the Committee investigate and take the necessary actions.
According to him “I am the Managing Director and Chairman of Abey Signature Ltd, the managers and owner of Abeh Apartment, located at 1 Mekong Close, Maitama, and Abuja, Nigeria. Sir, We write with a heavy heart, especially when We see the profession being brought to serious disrepute by persons and character of HENRY K.OTU lawyer with Law corridor in Asokoro, Abuja.
“We instituted a suit against one ASABE WAZIRI who was about to purchase two blocks of flats in my apartment in Maitama and her conduct after she was given possession had posed serious threat to other potential buyers and tenants in the property.
We had appealed to her to vacate the property and get a refund since we cannot accommodate her attitude any further. She resisted and we instituted a case against her in court” he added.
The Chairman pointed out that “On the 17th February, 2022, His Lordship Hon justice Musa Othman delivered his judgment against her and ordered that all her money be refunded to her and that she vacates the premises. On the 18th March, 2022, the judgment was enforced as she was vacated from the premises.
“She appealed against the decision and the case is has been transmitted and entered at the Court of Appeal. This case is coming up on the 29th June 2022. Sir, the said Asabe Waziri, was represented by Oyefeso Esq both at the trial court and at the Appeal. However, shortly after the appealed was entered Asabe engaged Henry Otu. K of the Law Firm of Law Corridor to obviously do an illegal and hatchet job.
He noted that “this Henry K. Otu of the Law Firm of Law Corridor took over the case and came to move the Motion for Stay of Execution at the Court of Appeal. The hearing of the Motion is slated for 29th June 2022. However, the Court ordered parties to Maintain Status Quo ante. Take NOTE that the enforcement was carried against the Appellant on the 18th March, 2022.
“While the appellant is on appeal with a Motion for stay, still pending before the Court of Appeal, Henry K. Otu, of the Law Firm of Law Corridor quickly, went to a Magistrate Court, misrepresented facts and fraudulently inserted a phrase to the Order of the Court of Appeal thus: “to wit reposes the applicant” andsought for an Order directing the Director of Enforcement, FCT high Court to reinstate the Appellant.
He further said that “this magistrate due to undue influence granted the order and directed the Director Enforcement to reinstate the Appellant.
As if that was not enough, Henry Out, of the Law Firm of Law Corridor without service of the order to us and our company y went further to enforce the same order procured irregularly.
“Furthermore Henry K. Otu ,of the Law Firm of Law Corridor has also gone back to Hon Justice Othman’s court through a MOTION EXPARTE to procure an ORDER directing that the Appellant to be restored to possession. This is even when he is aware that Hon Othman Musa FCT High court 7 is functus officio ofthe matter. Secondly, Henry K. Otu, is equally aware that his Client ASABE WAZIRI is challenging wrongful execution in a suit she instituted before HIS LORDSHIP HON JUSTICE B.HASSAN. In summary, Henry Otu, has presented himself as a legal practitioner, who procures Court order illegally to do mischief. This is a gross violation of the ethic of the Profession and his action amounts to gross misconduct and a conduct unbecoming of a legal practitioner.
“We therefore request for this sole prayer: That I call on the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) to investigate and take necessary action against Mr. Henry K. Otu of the Law Firm of Law Corridor as per the complaint against him.
