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BREAKING: Justice Mohammed Liman of the Federal High Court in Lagos orders the release of Senator Orji Uzor Kalu from Correctional Centre.

The Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered the release of a former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, from prison.

Kalu was sentenced to 12 years in prison, after he was convicted of N7.1bn fraud alongside his firm, Slok Nigeria Limited, and a former Director of Finance at the Abia State Government House, Jones Udeogu.

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A federal high court in Lagos has ordered the release of Orji Kalu, former Abia state governor, from prison.

Mohammed Liman, judge of the federal high court in Lagos, had fixed June 2 to hear of a motion on notice filed by Kalu, seeking release from prison.

In his application, the former governor asked the court to order his release from the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS), Kuje, Abuja, following the nullification of his conviction by the supreme court.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned Kalu and Ude Jones Udeogu, a former director of finance and account of Abia state on 36 counts of money laundering to the tune of N7.1 billion.

On December 5, 2019, Kalu was sentence to 12 years imprisonment while Udeogu got a 10-year sentence.

On May 8, the supreme court nullified the trial of Kalu and his co-convicts.

The apex court held that Mohammed Idris, the trial judge who had been elevated to the court of appeal at the time of the case, ought not to have presided over the matter while he was an appeal court judge.

Ejembi Eko, who read the lead judgment on behalf of the seven-man panel of justices, said section 396(7) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA), 2015, on which Zainab Bulkachuwa, former president of the court of appeal, relied on to authorise the trial judge to return to the high court to conclude the trial was unconstitutional.

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sassysure:
[s]Abia people are very docile.
Why is it so?[/s]

Racoon:
May it never with this rogue and his colleague that looted & made Abia State the eyesore it's today.Let the retrial commence to send back this criminal to jail.Ùseless country.