The Supreme Court has invalidated the judgment which indicted previous Abia state representative and serving congressperson, Orji Uzor Kalu, and Ude Udeogo, the previous Director of Finance and Accounts during Kalu's organization. Congressperson, Orji Uzor Kalu, and Ude Udeogo were captured and imprisoned for redirecting N7.6 billion having a place with the state government during their time in office.
Equity Idris Mohammed Liman of the Federal High Court in Lagos on December 12, 2019, condemned Kalu to 12 years detainment in the wake of seeing him as blameworthy of N7.1bn extortion charges leveled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Udeogo was likewise condemned to 10 years.
Disappointed with the judgment of the Federal High Court, Kalu and Udeogu recorded an intrigue to challenge their condemning at the Supreme Court.
The zenith court, in a consistent decision by a seven-man board of Justices drove by Justice Amina Augie, held that the Federal High Court in Lagos acted without locale when it indicted Kalu, his firm, Slok Nigeria Limited and previous Director of Finance in Abia State, Jones Udeogu. It held that preliminary Justice Mohammed Liman was not, at this point an appointed authority of the Federal High Court as at the time he sat and conveyed the judgment that indicted the litigants for purportedly taking about N7.1billion from Abia state treasury.
The peak court, thusly, requested the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court to reassign the case for preliminary.
Kalu filled in as the Governor of Abia State from May 29, 1999, to May 29, 2007.
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