Former Governor Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu alongside two others, has been re-arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over a 34-count charge bordering on fraud.
His company, Slok Nigeria Limited and his former Commissioner for Finance, James Udeogo, were re-arraigned at the Federal High Court on Tuesday, September 27, 2016 before Justice Anwuri Chikere.
Counsel to the defendants’ plea that the court should await the pending appeal by Slok before the Supreme Court failed.
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
