BY LEVI JOHNSON
Olisa Metuh, the spokesperson of the People’s Democratic Party, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment by the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday.
Justice Okon Abang who delivered the judgment found Olisa Metuh guilty in the charges of money laundering levelled against Metuh. He equally ordered Metuh to pay the sum of N366m to the federal government while serving his jail.
In the same vein, the judge ordered Metuh’s company, Destra Investment Ltd to pay a fine of N25m to the Federal Government and wound up.
Abang said that from the facts placed before him which he had reviewed, said, ”Convict planted thorns and cannot expect to gather flowers.”
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Justice Abang said he was subjected to all kinds of humiliation and attacks by lawyers and the media throughout the four years of the trial.
He said Metuh was too proud and refused to settle the case with EFCC even when confronted with the N50m he transferred to his wife, which ought to have made him sober and remorseful.
Recall that Justice Abang had earlier convicted Metuh and his company, Destra Investment Ltd on the seven-count charges filed by the EFCC against him over the receipt of N400m from former NSA, retired Col. Sambo Dasuki.
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