Just In: Court Orders Immediate Release Of Orji Kalu From Kuje Prison | CABLE REPORTERS
A federal high hosting in Lagos has ordered the immediate release of Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, the former governor of Abia state from Kuje Prison.
In earlier application, Dr. Kalu ask, ed the court to order his release from the Nigerian Correctional Service Kuje, Abuja following the nullification of his earlier 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.
He was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment on December 5, 2019 but the supreme court on may 8th nullified the trial of Kalu and others.
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 appeal court judge.
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