EFCC arraigns former Abia Gov. Orji Kalu

The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has arraigned former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu in Lagos for money laundering.

According to a report news report by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) monitored by Business247 News Online, he has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja, last week, to compel the EFCC to prosecute him in Abuja.

The ex-governor, who is facing trial alongside his company, Slok Nigeria Limited, and a former Director of Finance in Abia State, Mr. Udeh Jones Udeogu, sought for an order of mandamus to stop the anti-graft agency from transferring his case file to Lagos.

Kalu, who served as governor of the state between 1999 and 2007, was first arraigned in 2007 on a 96-count charge of money laundering.

The Supreme Court, in 2016, ordered him to stand trial after a lengthy legal battle.