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EFCC re-arraigns ex-Gov, 2 others for N3.2bn fraud

Gbenga Bada

September 28, 2016 5:59 AM

The EFCC has re-arraigned Orji Kalu and two others for an alleged N3.2billion fraud during his tenure as Abia Governor.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has re-arraigned a former governor of Abia,

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Kalu, his company, Slok Nigeria Limited and his former Commissioner for Finance, Jones Udeogo, were re-arraigned before Justice Anwuri Chikere of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Tuesday.

The defendants plea that the court should await the pending appeal by Slok before the Supreme Court failed.

Chikere had refused the defendants’ objection to their arraignment and ordered that the charge be read to them.

Kalu and others were, in the amended charge, accused of diverting about N3.2 billion from the Abia government’s treasury during Kalu’s tenure as governor.

They all pleaded not guilty to the charges and Chikere allowed them on bail on the terms attached to the bail granted them on April 30, 2008.

They had, eight years earlier been arraigned before Justice Adamu Bello, who is now retired.

The court adjourned the case till Dec. 6 for commencement of trial.