Court Bars FG From Retrying Uzor Kalu Over Money Laundering Charge

JUSTICE Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has barred the Federal Government from retrying former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, on the N7.1 billion money laundering charge earlier preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC).

In a judgment delivered on Wednesday, Justice Inyang Ekwo, held that the Supreme Court did not in the verdict it given on May 8, 2020, order the retrial of either Kalu or his firm, Slok Nigeria Limited.

Justice Ekwo held that the Supreme Court only ordered the retrial of former Director of Finance in Abia State, Jones Udeogu, who was the Appellant before it.

Consequently, he upheld a suit filed by Kalu to challenge the legal propriety of his planned re-arraignment by the EFCC.

Kalu had in the Application he filed through his team of lawyers  led by Chief Awa Kalu, SAN, argued that allowing the EFCC to try him afresh on the charge and same facts upon which he was earlier convicted and sentenced on December 5, 2019, would amount to suffer a “double jeopardy”.

Kayode Shopekan

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