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Court Fixes September 27 For Orji Kalu, Others’ Arraignment by apogeez(m): 8:03pm On Jun 30, 2016 |
A Federal High Court in Abuja on
Thursday ordered that a former Governor
of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, and his co-
accused would on September 27, be
arraigned on the charges of money
laundering involving alleged diversion of
about N3.2bn belonging to the state
preferred against them by the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission.
Justice Anwuri Chikere fixed the date for
arraignment after rejecting a defence
counsel’s application to defer it till when
the Supreme Court would deliver its
judgment on a pending appeal challenging
the validity of the charges.
The EFCC had, in 2007, preferred the
charges against Kalu alongside Jones
Udeogo, and the former governor’s
company, Slok Nigeria Limited.
In the amended charges of 34 counts, the
accused were said to have diverted a
cumulative sum of N3.2bn from the Abia
State Government’s treasury while Kalu
was the governor of the state.
The case had however failed to make
progress as all the three defendants had
separately challenged the court’s decision
dismissing their notices of preliminary
objection to the charges, at the Court of
Appeal and later at the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court had on March 18,
2016, dismissed Kalu’s and Udeogo’s
separate appeals and ordered them to
face their trial.
But Slok Nigeria Limited’s lawyer, Mr.
Solomon Akuna (SAN), had on May 16
drawn the attention of Justice Chikere to
the pending appeal by his client in the
case and urged the court to adjourn the
case indefinitely till when the Supreme
Court would rule on it.
He had said two appeals numbered;
SC.215/2012 and SC.264/2012 had been
heard and determined but the third
appeal, SC.264A/2012, filed by Slok yet to
be heard by the apex court.
Justice Chikere had then further
adjourned the case till Thursday.
Akuna again on Thursday insisted that the
arraignment could not take place until the
apex court’s judgment was delivered.
He asked the court to further adjourn for
mention of the case, but the prosecuting
counsel, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN),
disagreed with the defence lawyer and
urged the court not to adjourn for
definite arraignment of the accused.
Jacobs cited provisions of the
Administration of Criminal Justice Act
which he said prohibited stay of
proceedings in a criminal trial.
The prosecutor asked the defence lawyer
to go to the Supreme Court to obtain an
order for stay of proceedings if he was
interested in halting the trial.
The judge agreed with the prosecuting
counsel and fixed September 27 for the
arraignment of the accused. Source: www.punchng.com/court-fixes-september-27-orji-kalu-others-arraignment/ |
Re: Court Fixes September 27 For Orji Kalu, Others’ Arraignment by kishimi8(m): 8:13pm On Jun 30, 2016 |
Thus judiciary people them no de joke again o |
Re: Court Fixes September 27 For Orji Kalu, Others’ Arraignment by doctokwus: 8:22pm On Jun 30, 2016 |
kishimi8:As confirmed by Metuh,the former towncrier |
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