Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal high court sitting in Abuja has struck out the seven count money laundering charge filed against former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh and his firm, Destra Investment Ltd.
The lawsuit filed by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was struck out on Monday September 26.
Justice Nwite struck the law suit out after listening to arguments from the prosecution and the defendants’ lawyers.
The judge stated that it was of no use keeping the charge in his court’s docket when the prosecution and defendants have appeals pending at the Supreme Court.
Nwite who described the retention of the charge, marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/05/2022 as “an abuse of court process,” held that there was no way the case could return to his court without the Supreme Court first deciding the appeals by parties in the charge.
