Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Court Adjourns Metuh’s N400m Fraud Trial to Feb 26

The trial of a former spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for an alleged N400 million fraud, has been adjourned to February 26, 2019 by Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court, Abuja. The EFCC is prosecuting Metuh along with Destra Investment Limited for receiving the money from the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA, under then Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd). At the resumed sitting on February 25, 2019 Obinna Ona, who represented Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, the lead counsel for Metuh, plead…