The ongoing investigation by the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission has landed the spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, in the Commission’s cell in Abuja.
Metuh, who was arrested by four operatives of the anti-graft
agency from his Abuja home, spent the first night with his interrogators at the
headquarters of the EFCC, answering questions on how the sum of N1.4 billion
strayed from the account of the Office of the National Security Adviser into a
company, Destra, linked to him.
Interestingly, it was the suspect, who first hinted that the
former President, Goodluck Jonathan, had given him a job to do and that he
successfully completed the said job, but
failed to say what it was and how much he was paid for and when.
The revelation by Metuh, according to EFCC officials,
prompted the agency to beam its searchlight on cash payments from the ONSA,
leading to the discovery that he was one of the major beneficiaries of slush
funds, now a subject of investigation and prosecution by the Federal
Government.
It was learnt that out of the $2.1 billion arms funds, N400
million was transferred from ONSA to the company on November 24, 2014 which
previously had a balance of N6, 676,576.06 only before the major transfer from
the ONSA.
A top source in the EFCC said that Metuh was also receiving
a monthly pay of N4 million from ONSA.
A top EFCC source said Metuh was likely to spend the night
with them given the weight of financial transactions in ONSA traced to him and
his company.
The source said: “We arrested Chief Metuh this morning
(yesterday) and as we speak he is still being questioned and it is not likely
that he will be released today.
“We want to finish the interrogation of Metuh at once, so
that we can decide whether to charge him to court or let him to go,” the source
said.
Metuh, has, however slammed his arrest by the EFCC, claiming
that he was being persecuted.
“I have not done anything unlawful. Whatever I have done in
pursuance of my office, I can defend it anywhere, any time,” he said.(VANGUARD)
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