Major national dailies in Nigeria, on Friday, January 22, focused their reports on the fresh charges slammed on the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisah Metuh.
Daily Sun reports that the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisah Metuh, was on Thursday, January 21, slammed with fresh criminal charges by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Metuh, who was brought to court from Kuje Prisons handcuffed, was docked for a two-count criminal charge for allegedly attempting to destroy the evidence expected to be used in his trial in the alleged N400 million fraud case at a Federal High Court in Abuja.
The PDP spokesman was first arraigned on Tuesday before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court by the anti-graft agency on a seven-count charges of corruption and money laundering. He is yet to meet his N400 million bail conditions given him by the court. The EFCC told the court presided over by Chief Judge, Justice Ishaq Bello, that Metuh forcefully seized the confessional statement he allegedly made to the EFCC on the alleged fraud and tore it into shreds.
Metuh, however, pleaded not guilty to all the counts.
Justice Bello fixed January 25 to hear the bail application filed by Metuh’s counsel, Chief Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), while the accused was taken back to Kuje Prisons in Abuja pending the time his application for bail would be considered and determined.
Metuh is docked for allegedly collecting N400 million from the $2.1 billion arms
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