The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has opened a can of warm for the embattled national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh, especially as regard the N400 Million he allegedly received from the former National Security Adviser (NSA), retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki for nothing.
One of the seven count charges read to Metuh before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja was: “That you, Olisa Metuh and Destra Investments Limited on or before the 24th November, 2014 in Abuja within the Jurisdiction of this Honourable court took possession of the sum N400,000,000 (Four Hundred Million Naira) only, paid into the account of DESTRA INVESTMENTS LIMITED with DIAMOND BANK Plc account number: 0040437573 from the account of the National Security Adviser with the Central Bank of Nigeria without contract award when you reasonably ought to have known that the said sum formed part of the proceeds of an unlawful activity of Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (rtd), the then National Security Adviser (to wit; criminal breach of trust and corruption) and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15(2), (d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 as amended in 2012 and punishable under Section 15(3) of the same Act.”
However, Metuh pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to him.
The court adjourned the case to January 19, 2016 for the hearing of arguments on the bail application even as the judge ordered that Metuh be remanded in prison custody. [myad]
