By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
ABUJA – Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, refused to suspend trial of erstwhile National Publicity Secretray of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, to allow the detained former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retd, who was summoned to testify as a witness in the trial, to refresh his memory.
Dasuki, who mounted the witness box on Wednesday, had insisted that he could not remember whether or not he approved the payment of N400million from account the office of the NSA operated with Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to Metuh.
The money was allegedly wired electronically into an account Metuh’s firm, Destra Investment Ltd (2nd defendant), operated with Diamond Bank Plc, prior to the 2015 Presidential election.
Following Dasuki’s insistence that he could not give evidence in…
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