The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has closed its case against the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh.
The case was closed after the 8th prosecution witness, Mr Junaid Said, an investigative officer with the EFCC, described how Metuh destroyed his statement during investigation by the anti-graft agency.
The witness, according to Thisday, said Metuh tore the statement after he had written that the money he received from the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) was for campaign activities as approved by former president, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, and for the payment of his personal debt.
Said told the court that out of the N400 million that was fraudulently transferred to Metuh and his company by the former NSA, the accused person kept N50 million for himself .
He added that about N77.5 million was allegedly paid to one agency, CMC Connect for campaign publicity for the PDP while N25 million was given to one Abba Dabo for the same purpose.
The witness also told the court that the National Women Leader of the PDP, Kema Chikwe got N5 million naira from the said money ,while the chairman Board of Trustees of the PDP, Chief Tony Anenih received the sum of N21.7 billion naira .
He also told Jstice Obong Abang that the sum of N500 million was paid in two tranches to a company Daniel Ford International by Metuh for the purchase of a landed property at Banana Island in Lagos state.
Under cross examination, however the witness told the court that investigation revealed that the former National Security Adviser Colonel Sambo Dasuki retired had in the 27th of november 2014 made a N10 billion naira withdrawal from the Central Bank of Nigeria and converted same to $47 million which was shared to PDP party members at its national convention .
Posted by Janice Johnson
