The immediate past National Publicity Secretary of the
Peoples Democratic Party( PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh on Thursday said he was prepared
to pay back his share of N400million out of the $2.1billion cash meant
for arms.
The cash was allegedly diverted to political purposes by the
Office of the National Security Adviser( ONSA) during the tenure of ex-National
Security Adviser( NSA).
But Metuh, who has been on trial in the past few months,
said he has had enough of legal travails.
He said he had been in talks with the Ministry of Justice,
the EFCC and other necessary bodies on how to refund the money and resolve the
issue.
The ex-PDP National Publicity Secretary came up with the
offer in a statement through his counsel, Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN).
He said although the cash was released to him by former
President Goodluck Jonathan, he did not know the source as at the time.
He said since the EFCC presented a document on the source of
the money in court, he had made up his mind to willingly refund the
N400million.
He said: ” It was however while in court that a document was
brought regarding the source of the money and since then, our Client has made
manifest his willingness to refund the money and has indeed approached his
family, friends and associates to mobilise funds to refund the entire N400
million to the government regardless of the fact that the money had been
expended based on the directives of the former President and that part of the
money had been recovered from one of the prosecution witnesses.”
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