I Was Selling Guns To Make Money; My Mother and Father Came and Said I Must Stop and I Stopped—Kalu

Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, representing Abia North Senatorial District and a member of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, has admitted that he previously dealt in arms, revealing that he sold guns to anyone willing to buy them before his parents persuaded him to quit the business. Kalu made the revelation during an interview on Arise Television aired on Monday, November 9, 2026.

Kalu disclosed that a major part of his business activities was previously based outside Nigeria and involved arms trading. When the interviewer sought clarification on whether he was an arms dealer, Kalu answered in the affirmative.

The interviewer subsequently questioned whether he sold guns to people who used them to kill others. However, Kalu dismissed the suggestion that he was responsible for what buyers did with the weapons, insisting that his primary concern was making money from the business. He said, “No, no, no. I was selling guns to make money. Whether they blow it, it wasn’t my business.”

Kalu further revealed that his parents eventually intervened and instructed him to discontinue the business, a decision he said he complied with. He said, “But my mother and my father came and said I must stop. And I stopped.”

Kalu, however, denied that he was specifically selling weapons to the ANC, explaining that his customers were not restricted to any particular organisation. He said, “No. I was selling to anybody who wants to buy.”

The interviewer subsequently asked where he sourced the guns he sold, but Kalu declined to disclose the information, describing it as strictly his business. He said, “It’s only my business.”

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