{"id":758987,"date":"2019-12-05T15:18:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T15:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/05\/court-sends-senator-kalu-2-others-to-12-years-imprisonment\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T15:18:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T15:18:21","slug":"court-sends-senator-kalu-2-others-to-12-years-imprisonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/05\/court-sends-senator-kalu-2-others-to-12-years-imprisonment\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Sends Senator Kalu, 2 Others To 12 Years Imprisonment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_706426\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-706426\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-706426\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Orji-Kalu.jpg\" alt=\"Former Governor Orji Uzor Kalu\" width=\"1280\" height=\"723\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-706426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Governor Orji Uzor Kalu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A federal high court sitting in Lagos has ruled that Orji Uzo Kalu, a former governor of Abia state, and two others are guilty of N7.66 billion allegation of fraud levied against them by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission(EFCC).<\/p>\n<p>He has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>His co-accused are Slok Nigeria limited and Mr. Udeh Udeogu(Director of Finance and Accounts at the Abia State Government House during Kalu\u2019s tenure as governor).<\/p>\n<p>The former governor now represents Abia south senatorial district in the National Assembly as a lawmaker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Orji Uzor Kalu Reacts As Tribunal Sacks Him As Senator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also, he is a member of the ruling All Progressive Congress(APC).<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Governor Orji Uzor Kalu A federal high court sitting in Lagos has ruled that Orji Uzo Kalu, a former governor of Abia state, and two others are guilty of N7.66 billion allegation of fraud levied against them by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission(EFCC). He has been sentenced to 12 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":704945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Court Sends Senator Kalu, 2 Others To 12 Years Imprisonment - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/05\/court-sends-senator-kalu-2-others-to-12-years-imprisonment\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Court Sends Senator Kalu, 2 Others To 12 Years Imprisonment - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Former Governor Orji Uzor Kalu A federal high court sitting in Lagos has ruled that Orji Uzo Kalu, a former governor of Abia state, and two others are guilty of N7.66 billion allegation of fraud levied against them by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission(EFCC). 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