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EFCC Sets to Re-Arraigned Orji Uzo Kalu

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Few hours after the Supreme court of Nigeria said the trail of the former governor of Abia state should be retrial,a ruling that most people considered favorably to the embattling senator who had spent the last five months in prison.



However, the Economic And Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has said that the Senator will be re-arraigned again and that the judgement has now exonerated the former governor. EFCC made this know through a statement of her social media handle.

The statement reads in part:

The attention of the Economic And Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to the judgment of

the Supreme Court nullifying the trial of a former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu , his firm, Slok Nigeria Limited and Jones Udeogu, a former Director of Finance and Account of Abia State Government and ordering their fresh trial at the lower court.

The apex court based its verdict on the grounds that Justice Mohammed Idris, who convicted Kalu and others had been elevated to the Court of Appeal before the judgment and returned to the lower court to deliver the judgment which it considered as illegal.

The EFCC considers the judgment of the apex court as quite unfortunate . It is a technical ambush against the trial of the former governor. The Commission is prepared for a fresh and immediate trial of the case because its evidences against Kalu and others are overwhelming.

The corruption charges against Kalu still subsist because the Supreme Court did not acquit him of them. The entire prosecutorial machinery of the EFCC would be launched in a fresh trial where justice is bound to be served in due course.



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