PDP Spokesman, Olisa Metuh, arrested by EFCC

Olisa Metuh, PDP National Publicity Secretary

Olisa Metuh, the National Publicity Secretary of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, was taken in for questioning at the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, regarding some fund said to have been traced to his firm.

Operatives of the agency reportedly arrived the Abuja home of Mr. Metuh on Tuesday morning, and invited him to follow them to the commission’s headquarters. This was confirmed by the spokesman’s aide, Richard Ihediwa, in a statement. He said upon enquiry on the reasons for the invitation, the officials stated that he has some issues to clear with the commission.

“They also said he was not being arrested but friendly invited. The operatives, four in number, came in a White unmarked Toyota Hiace bus,” Mr. Ihediwa said.

He also said as at the time of issuing the statement, Mr. Metuh was still being kept at the commission’s headquarters and his lawyers were making frantic efforts to reach him.

The PDP publicity secretary had said on Monday that he wondered why he was reading about plans to interrogate him on the pages of the newspaper even though he was yet to be invited for questioning by the EFCC.

Metuh is said to be under investigation for allegedly collecting about N400m from the office of the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), who had been arraigned for allegedly diverting over N45bn meant for the procurement of arms during the tenure of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

The opposition publicity secretary had admitted that he collected an undisclosed sum of money from Jonathan. He stated that he got the undisclosed amount for carrying out unspecific work, as the spokesperson for the PDP, for the former President.