A FORMER National Publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, has been released from Kuje custodial centre, Abuja, after many years of legal fireworks between him and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over an alleged N400m money laundering.
Metuh was sentenced to seven years in prison on February 25, by Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, who found him guilty of the charges.
But the Court of Appeal penultimate Wednesday quashed his conviction on the basis of bias established against Justice Abang and ordered his retrial.
He was also released on Thursday from the prison.
The spokesman, Federal Capital Territory Command of the Nigeria Correctional Service, Humphrey Chukwuedo, confirmed the development.
“I can confirm that Metuh has been released from custody, ” he stated.
Metuh had in the course of his trial accused the judge of bias but his protests were dismissed by Abang who subsequently convicted him.
Apart from retrial the Court of Appeal also ruled that Metuh’s case should be reassigned to a different judge.
But the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said it will approach the Supreme Court to set aside the December 16 decision of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, quashing Metuh’s conviction.
It noted that the court restricted itself to only two grounds of the appeal that dwelled on the alleged bias of the trial judge but failed to examine the merit of Abang’s judgment.
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