Popular human rights activist, Deji Adeyanju has reacted to the sentencing of former National Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh, guilty of money laundering to 39 years in prison.
Justice Okon Abang on Tuesday found the Metuh guilty of money laundering.
The judge ruled that Metuh could not prove that the N400m transferred to his account and that of his firm, Destra Investments Limited, was approved by former President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2015 general elections.
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Metuh had argued that the money was sent to him by the former president for the 2015 election campaign but the Federal High Court in its ruling said that Metuh should have known that the N400m were proceeds of unlawful activity.
Reacting to the ruling, Deji Adeyanju, expressed that the implication of this judgement is that anyone who receives money for any transaction is liable is they do not investigate the source of the money.
Abang in his judgment said Olisa should have investigated the source of the money he got from Jonathan. When next I do a business transaction with someone & he pays me: I should investigate the source of the money I am paid.
— Comrade Deji Adeyanju (@adeyanjudeji) February 25, 2020
The implication of the judgment just handed down by Abang is that if you receive money for any transaction or service, you are liable if you don’t investigate the source. Abang has changed our commercial/money laundering law.
— Comrade Deji Adeyanju (@adeyanjudeji) February 25, 2020
BREAKING: As expected, Abang jails Olisa Metuh for corruption.
I would have been surprised if Abang didn’t rule like this. He has been accused severally by the opposition to be a pro Govt judge. Suswan is lucky to have gotten him to hands off his case.
— Comrade Deji Adeyanju (@adeyanjudeji) February 25, 2020