Dasukigate: Jonathan will witness against Metuh?

– Jonathan is supposed to be the most crucial witness in Dasuki gate

– Metuh said he can’t be prosecute without interrogation of ex-president

– He took a fresh plea of not guilty

Chief Olisa Metuh, the spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that ex-president Goodluck Jonathan should witness in $2.1bn arms deals scam.

Metuh said that the prosecution witness evidence that presentation for which money was paid was made to Jonathan makes the probe of his role as well as his evidence crucial without which no prima facie case can believably be said to have been made out.

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He said: “Dr. Jonathan, to whom the presentation was made for which the payment was made, is therefore a material and in­dispensible person in order for a prima facie case to be present. Where the prosecution failed to call such a vital witness, a strong presumption will arise that the evidence, if called, would be unfavourable to the prosecution.”

“In any case, the “mens rea’ of the defendants to the effect that former NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) committed a criminal offence cannot be inferred, but must be established by a competent evidence which must come from the prosecution.”

“In this case, by the evidence of PW3 who works in the Office of the National Security Adviser [ONSA], the NSA is answerable to the then President Goodluck Jonathan only,” he said.

Metuh further added: “In this case, it has not been established that the defendants knew that the ONSA engaged in any unlawful acts, adding that an unlawful act must be an act which is not authorised or approved and which has been found to be illegal.

“There was no evidence that the defendants were involved in any forged documents to create a contract where none was in fact, in existence.

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“Pw8, the inves­tigator was emphatic that he found no relationship of any kind between the defendants and Col. Sambo Dasuki.”

However, the PDP’s spokesperson took a new plea of not guilty in the revised charge against him and his earlier bail was restored by the court.

The PDP spokesperson is blamed for receiving N400 million from a former national security adviser Sambo Dasuki.

The money was part of about $2.1 billion for arms procurement, but allegedly diverted by Dasuki.

Mr Metuh was on January 28 released on bail.

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