PDP SPOKEMAN GANTED 400MILLION NAIRA BAIL

                           

Olisa Metuh arriveing court with handcuffs

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

In Nigeria as the fight against corruption continues the Federal High Court sitting Abuja has granted bail to the embattled National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, to the tune of four hundred million naira.

In a bench ruling, trial Justice Okon Abang ordered Metu to produce two sureties who must deposit the sum of two hundred million naira each, they must also reside in Abuja, and must be owners of landed ‎properties within the Maitama district of the FCT.

‎They are to submit the Certificate of Occupancy of the properties to the Chief Registrar of the court for verification, as well as submit their three years tax clearance and ‎must swear to an affidavit of means and also submit two recent passport photographs.

Justice Abang ordered Metuh to surrender his international passport to the Chief Registrar of the high court.

‎The PDP spokesman, who was remanded in Kuje Prison last Friday, was brought to court in handcuffs with a prison bus. Metuh is answering to a seven-count criminal charge borders on alleged money laundering, breach of trust, criminal diversion of public funds that was preferred against him by the ‎Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.‎

‎Meanwhile the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned what it described as the brazen display of authoritarianism demonstrated by the President Buhari-led APC Government in handcuffing its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh even when the court is yet to hear his case.
This was contained in a statement signed by its National Secretary, Prof. Adewale Oladipo.

This development which expectedly elicited public outcry is been described as a political witch-hunt policy of the APC, carefully designed to humiliate, embarrass and portray PDP leaders as common criminals and set the stage to cow and decimate opposition and perceived foes of the government”.