November 27, 2018


Ade Adesomoju, Abuja

A former National Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, told the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had on Monday frozen all his bank accounts.

Metuh, who expressed shock over the development, said he learnt of the no-debit order placed on his account after his failed transaction on one of the accounts on Tuesday.


He told the court presided over by Justice Okon Abang that as a result of the development, he could no longer feed his family or buy things as common as water and pain-relieving medicine like Panadol.

Metuh was testifying in his trial as a defence witness when he digressed into making the comments about his frozen accounts on Tuesday.

He told the court presided over by Justice Okon Abang that as a result of the development, he could no longer feed his family or buy things as common as water and pain-relieving medicine like Panadol.

Metuh was testifying in his trial as a defence witness when he digressed into making the comments about his frozen accounts on Tuesday.


The ex-spokesperson for the PDP said, “The EFCC seized my accounts yesterday night and I can’t get money to feed my family.

“I am in total shock as I am here talking to you. I don’t even know what to say.

“They seized all my accounts in every bank in this country. As I am don’t have money to buy Panadol or water to drink.”


The ex-spokesperson noted that the freezing of his accounts had to do with his ongoing trial on the charges bordering on the N400m he allegedly received fraudulently from the Office of the National Security Adviser in 2014.

He, however, wondered why the EFCC having earlier seized his assets with the Asset and Resource Management Company Limited and his funds in other banks took the fresh step which he said had denied him access to his funds worth more than the amount at stake in the ongoing trial.


He said, “They have alleged in this case that N400m was stolen. Why would they not limit it to that amount? I don’t know how I am going to feed my family? I don’t have access to any money at all. I am ready to end this case and submit myself to the judgment of this court.”

His lawyer, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), said he had no objection to what his client was saying except the part where he spoke about ending the case.


But the judge, Justice Abang said the issue was not part of the case before him.

He advised the defendant to ask his lawyer to discuss the issue with the prosecuting counsel, Mr. Sylvanus Tahir, who was present in court.

Earlier, Metuh had tendered the print-outs of some news reports of news conferences he organised as the spokesperson of the PDP in July 2015.


He had said the news conferences which were critical of the All Progressives Congress and the President Muhammadu Buhari administration earned him threats and eventually his arrest and subsequent prosecution.

The EFCC is prosecuting Metuh and his Destra Investments Limited, on seven counts of money laundering and fraudulent receipt of N400m from the Office of the NSA on November 22, 2014, for the PDP’s campaign activities.

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He should sell his braces

Okay

Stay strong ��
Back to daura loading.........

This are the kind of people that don't want president BUHARI to continue, this is very commendable from EFCC.

we Don hear ooo..

So throughout he didn' give the wife money to save.

Look at him ranting as if the money in the account was actually his. Mr metuh you are still young, you can find something to do so that you can feed your family, Remember there is is dignity in labour.

Every thief and corrupt politicians will die painful death.
They will never go Scot free....along with all the supporters of thieves.
See this thief crying like a kid, u never see anything yet.
Na dat hunger go kill u lass lass!
God pass una!
This is what you and your drunken master would have turned the country to had we not kicked you out in 2015.

Hmmm
Broke so soon? ... And where are your fellow PDP looters that were following you upandawn
Anyway, PDP have got a new ATM machine, Atiku.

i want u to die of hunger ...same way many nigerians died of hunger as a result of Ur loots

Until l see you scaveging...

You must be mad dasuki,
Your family no get work?
Useless old fool
Rot in jail

Shithole

Lmfao

See Lie

Go and work nah.... Or do business and open another account shuu

Why complain

tell us how much u have in all dis accounts

write a book like jonathan.... Oh let me use PDP's favorite line they tell youths "Go to your village and start farming, city is not for everybody"

Join APC and your political atrocities will be obliterated and you become a saint.

yarimo:
This are the kind of people that don't want president BUHARI to continue, this is very commendable from EFCC.

Only incorrigible bigots and brainless people will want Buhari to continue. Buhari is not fighting corruption because he is corrupt.

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Onyeoshi
Barawo
Ole
Thief

You deserve it!

Thunder blast you.

When you and your family were eating our money with both hands, did you tell us.? Rubbish

u never see anything. this is just part one, wait after 2019 election and see the second part.

Lol wen u roll wit men of power remember who u r.
See d way GEJ take bone all dis men on trial

izzou:


Millions of Nigerians can't feed their families because of you and your likes

You can die for all I care

Olisa Metuh, go and die

Abeg let dem know.
All thieves in this nation will die hungry lass lass!

The ordinary Nigerian citizen is indeed a Lion and a hard nut.

You elites can't even stand what the ordinary and down-trodden Nigerian citizen has come to see as normal and take with a straight face and chin...haba mana

This reminds me of when I was in my teens and had a mini poultry consisting of the Agric 'fowls" (broilers) and our own very African chicken A.K A (okuko-igbo). At every Harmattan or bird-flu season, you'd usually find my broilers slumped and surrendered to the season while my original scavengers do their best at beating every odds stacked up against them.

The ordinary Nigerian citizen has gone so long without an account, not even a frozen one but keeps pushing, hoping and acting like all is well with a cosmetic smile.

Una no get liver but una like to thief everybody yam. I wished the FG would enact a law and contract Akwa Ibom people to handle every political looter. Those guys can represent Africa successfully in mob/jungle justice. Even if you by any stretch survive their handling, when next you see a yam that isn't yours, not minding how hungry or greedy you are, you'd learn to swallow your saliva and hop on along. ..

Idiots