The Federal High Court in Abuja is presently delivering judgement in a suit instituted against a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh.

 

Justice Okon Abang is presiding over the suit filed against Metuh by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

 

The trial judge fixed today for the judgment after taking arguments from the prosecution and defense counsels in the matter which has lasted about four years.

 

The anti-graft agency accused the former PDP spokesman of money laundering to the tune of 400 million naira.

 

He was charged alongside his company, Destra investment, with seven counts bordering on criminal diversion of the money received from the office of the former National Security Adviser, SAMBO DASUKI.

 

During their arraignment in court in January 2016, the defendants, however, pleaded ‘not guilty’ to the charges.

 

The Social Economic Rights and Accountability Project said Nigeria’s downward slip on the Transparency International’s corruption perception Index should not come as a surprise to anyone.

 

Nigeria was named the second most corrupt country in West Africa only ahead of Guinea Bissau.

 

 

SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole OludarE, said the 2019 TI Corruption Perceptions Index, which showed that Nigeria’s corruption rating had worsened from 2018, confirmed the belief that BUHARI’s anti-graft war was backsliding.

 

 

While speaking on a monitored program, the Head, Transparency International in Nigeria, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani highlighted areas where corruption is endemic in Nigeria.

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has allegedly frozen the bank accounts of a former senator from Kaduna state, Shehu Sani.

 

This was revealed in a statement by the senior special adviser to the senator, Suleiman Ahmed.

 

He also said the former lawmaker was “forced to declare his assets”.

 

In the statement, Sani’s aide accused the EFCC of bias in his principal’s case, and he listed 11 questions for the agency to answer, among which he wondered why the anti-graft agency has not detained Sani’s accuser who admitted to giving bribe.