Metuh, who was docked under the watchful eye of an Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama on a two-number charge verging on his claimed demolition of proof against him, argued not blameworthy to the charge. Metuh was for the second time got to court cuffs. Metuh however denied claim that he crushed a confession booth explanation he made before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in the charge which was marked by its Assistant Director, Legal and Prosecution Department, Mr. Sylvanus Tahir, asserted that the PDP representative who is additionally confronting another seven-tally criminal allegation before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja, tore and endeavored to bite the announcement he made under alert while experiencing cross examination.
The counter unite office demanded that the pulverized proclamation would have been crucial to its arraignment of the N400m extortion body of evidence pending against Metuh under the steady gaze of the Federal High Court. It said that Metuh, by his activity, submitted an offense in spite of segments 166 and 326 of the Penal Code Act. In the interim, for the second time, powers of the Kuje jail, yesterday, acquired Metuh to court cuffs. Soon after the litigant entered his supplication, trial Justice Ishaq Bello deferred hearing on his safeguard application till Monday.
Metuh had through his legal counselor, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, connected to be discharged on safeguard pending the determination of the charge against him. Ikpeazu battled that the claim against his customer is a bailable one. Nonetheless, the indicting counsel, Tahir, while demonstrating his aim to restrict Metuh's safeguard demand, focused on that the charge leveled against him draws in two years detainment upon his conviction.
The EFCC legal advisor similarly told the court that the commission has effectively lined up three witnesses to affirm against the respondent. While deferring hearing on the safeguard application, Justice Bello questioned why the EFCC neglected to join the present charge to the one effectively pending before the FHC. Part of the charge that was favored against Metuh read, "That you, Olisa Metuh in January 2016 while in the care of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, endeavored to devastate confirmation to keep its generation in court amid trial in opposition to Section 1 of the Panel Code. "That you Olisa Metuh, with purpose to make harm the property of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, attacked pieces proclamation you made under alert in spite of area 326 of the board code and culpable under Section 327 of the same code". It will be reviewed that Justice Abang had on Tuesday, allowed Metuh safeguard to the tune of N400million. The court however requested that he ought to be remanded at Kuje Prison pending when he can culminate all the safeguard conditions.
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