Alleged N400m fraud: Why S-Court refused to quash charges against Metuh

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…Says he has case to answer

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri

This is not the best of times for the bed-ridden former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  Chief Olisa Metuh, as the Supreme Court, yesterday held that he has a criminal case to answer.

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The apex court, in a unanimous judgement by a five-man panel of Justices, said there was merit in the seven-count charge the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, preferred against Metuh and his firm Destra Investment Limited.

EFCC alleged that Metuh had before the 2015 Presidential election, received N400million from the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA, without executing any contract.

The agency alleged that the fund was electronically wired from an account that ONSA operated with the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to Metuh, via account no. 0040437573, which his firm operated with…



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