A former Publicity National Publicity Secretary of the
Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Olisa Metuh, collapsed Monday morning as
he was making his way to the dock for his resumed trial at the Federal
High Court in Abuja.
Metuh, who with his company, Destra Investment Limited, are being
prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for the N400m
he allegedly received fraudulently from the Office of the National
Security Adviser in 2014, fell down, shortly after the case was called
on Monday.
The incident happened about 9.01am in the courtroom on Monday.
Metuh, was seated in the courtroom close to the dock before the trial judge, Justice Okon Abang.
The judge had to stand down the matter to enable medical officials to attend to the defendant.
The court’s medical officials, whose attention were called after the incident, entered the courtroom at 9.19am.
The matter was the first on the list of cases before Justice Abang,
who travels from Warri, Delta State Division of the Federal High Court
to the Abuja Division to hear Metuh’s matter and other criminal cases
assigned to him in Abuja.
Medical officials were still attending to him as of the time of filing this report at 9.25am.
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