The Federal High Court in Abuja has found a former spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh, and his company, Destra Investment Ltd, guilty of illegally receiving public funds.
Mr Metuh and his firm were found guilty of receiving N400 million from the Office of the National Security Adviser which he ought to have known to be a proceed of crime.
On February 18, Mr Metuh pleaded not guilty to the amended seven-count charge preferred against him by the EFCC. PREMIUM TIMES had reported, in April, how Mr Metuh told the court that the N400 million he is accused of collecting from the federal government was spent on “special national assignment.”In the judgement, which is currently on, Justice Okon Abang said that “I have my doubts if the first defendant is telling the truth in this matter”.
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