Metuh: EFCC Escapes Court Punishment for Misrepresenting Court Proceedings

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Metuh: EFCC Escapes Court Punishment for Misrepresenting Court Proceedings


The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) today escaped a reprimand from a Federal High Court in Abuja for issuing a statement on court transactions in the trial of the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh.

At the resumed hearing of the case of human rights abuse instituted by Metuh against the EFCC for detaining him illegally for two weeks, counsel to Metuh, Adedipe, had complained before Justice Okon Abang about what he described as half truths and misleading publications by the EFCC as regards his client.

He hinged his complaint on the fact that EFCC deliberately hid from it statement certain facts established in court, including the acknowledgement by the EFCC operative during cross examination that Metuh never ‘ate’ his statement while with the commission.

Metuh counsel also read out a section in the document from Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) wherein it was expressly stated that the N400million payment to Metuh followed due process.

The EFCC operative had also stated that in the cause of his investigation, he did not come across any evidence that Metuh had any personal relationship and/or direct dealings with the former NSA, Sambo Dasuki.

Also, he confirmed that he has no documentary and/or oral evidence to back his claim that Dasuki withdrew N10billion and changed it to dollars and distributed it to top PDP leaders during their national convention, same with his claim that the $2million given to Nneka Ararume actually came from the Dasuki withdrawn money.


The EFCC media officer, Mr. Wilson Uwajeren, had in a statement last Tuesday sent a one-sided report of what transpired when one of its officers, Junaid Said, testified as a prosecution witness in a criminal case against Metuh and ended up misrepresenting the court.

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