By Vivian Okejeme
Abuja
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has finally filed a seven count corruption charges against the detained National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Olisa Metuh.
The charges, which bother on breach of trust, criminal diversion of public fund and money laundering were filed against the PDP Chief at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
The charge indicated that Metuh, on November 2014, obtained a sum of N400m through Destra Investment Ltd. from the office of the then National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) on behalf of the PDP for campaign activities.
He was accused of converting part of the money to one $1 million and diverted it for his persona use while another sum of N21.7m was transferred to another chieftain of PDP, Chief Tony Anenih.
Some of the charge read:“That you, Olisa Metuh and Destra Investment Limited on or about the 24th November, 2014 in Abuja took possession of the sum of N400m paid into the account of Destra Investment Limited with Diamond Bank Plc, Account No: 0040437573 from the account of the office of the National Security Adviser with the Central Bank of Nigeria without contract award when you reasonably ought to have known that the said fund formed part of the proceeds of an unlawful activity of Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (retd) the then National Security Adviser.
“That you, Olisa Metuh and Destra Investments Limited on or about the 24th November, 2014 in Abuja, did retain the sum of N400m on behalf of the Peoples Democratic Party of its campaign activities by concealing the said sum in your account with Diamond Bank Plc, when you reasonably ought to have known that such fund formed part of the proceeds of an unlawful activity of Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), the then National Security Adviser.