{"id":49599,"date":"2016-05-25T21:07:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T20:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=49599"},"modified":"2016-05-27T07:37:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T06:37:36","slug":"metuh-ready-return-n400million-received-dasuki-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/metuh-ready-return-n400million-received-dasuki-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Metuh ready to return N400million he received from Dasuki&#8212;-Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mailview-right\" class=\"offset uibox\">\n<div id=\"messagecontent\">\n<div class=\"leftcol\">\n<div id=\"messagebody\">\n<div class=\"message-htmlpart\">\n<div class=\"rcmBody\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Onyechi Ikpeazu ( SAN), counsel to\u00a0 Olisa Metuh, has said his client is willing to return the N400 million he (Metuh) allegedly received illegally from the national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Speaking to journalists in court today, May 25, Metuh\u2019s lawyer, Onyechi Ikpeazu said that since his client have shown sufficient evidence that he (Metuh) did not know the source of N400 million transferred to his company account by Dasuki, he is willing to refund the said amount.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cChief Metuh had shown sufficient evidence that he was not aware of the source of the N400 million made available to him by the former President and he has shown his willingness, since the commencement of this matter, to refund the said sum even when there is no guilt knowledge (mens rea),\u201d Ikpeazu said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ikpeazu also said that having lost an application made at the Appeal Court, his client has the right to go ahead to the Supreme Court to seek justice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"message\" class=\"statusbar\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onyechi Ikpeazu ( SAN), counsel to\u00a0 Olisa Metuh, has said his client is willing to return the N400 million he (Metuh) allegedly received illegally from the national security adviser, Sambo&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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