Details have emerged about what the embattled National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Olisa Metuh, wrote in the statement he tore, which he had made under caution while in the custody of the EFCC.
Statements of the operatives, who were said to have witnessed the incident and the “incidence record book” that gives details of the occurrence, were part of the documents filed with charges of destruction of evidence preferred against him by EFCC before a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja.
The documents indicate that five operatives of the commission witnessed the incident which was said to have happened on January 5, 2016, the day the PDP spokesperson was arrested.
Metuh allegedly tore his statement on January 5, while being investigated for an alleged fraudulent receipt of N400m from the Office of the NSA and money laundering allegation involving a separate sum of $2m.
The pieces of the torn statement have now been kept with the commission’s exhibit keeper.
The entry number 049 in the incident duty log, recorded at 4.30pm by an EFCC detective, Junaid Sa’id, on January 5, 2016, reads, “Destruction OF Written Statement: I have booked the incident of tearing into pieces of statement by Mr. Olisa Metuh, who was given his statement to endorse after volunteering his statement and he decided to tear into pieces the third page of his four-page statement.
“The torn statement has however been registered with the Exhibit Keeper. Entry made by Det. Junaid Sa’id.”
It gives the timeline and details of how Metuh’s arrest was effected at about 10.55am in his residence at the Prince and Princess Estate in Abuja, up till when he tore part of the statement at about.4.25pm.
It also indicates that Metuh had stated in the part of the torn statement that the account in which the N400m was paid was requested for by Goodluck Jonathan, for payments to be made.
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