REVEALED: Orji Kalu Allegedly Used Abia State Funds To Sustain His ‘Okrika’ Business

Former Abia state governor, Mr Orji Uzor Kalu

An investigator attached to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Tuesday that former Governor of Abia State,  Orji Uzor Kalu allegedly used the state funds to purchase second hand clothes popularly known as Okrika.

The investigator, Mr. John Ejim, make this revelation on Tuesday, after tendering several bank documents used by Slok Nigeria Limited, a company belonging to Kalu, before the court in regards to the ongoing trial.

Kalu, his Commissioner of finance, Udeh Jones Udeogu, and Slok Nigeria Limited, are standing trial before the court, on 34 counts charge bordering over alleged N3.2 billion fraud, brought againat them by the EFCC.

At the resumed trial of the defendants, the witness who was led-in-evidence by the prosecutor, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs, told the court how the second defendant, Jones Udeogu, told the commission during interrogation that the first defendant, Kalu, used government money to purchase ‘Okirika’, fairly used clothes.

According to Nigerian Tribune, a witness also told the court how a petition written by an Abia group, ‘Abia Leader Forum’ was assigned to his team for investigation.

“Sometimes in September 2005, a petition dated September 7, 2005, written by Abia Leader Forum, was forwarded to the EFCC. The petition was assigned to my team which was led by Mrs. Funke Adetayo for investigation.

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“Prior to the petition, EFCC was already building intelligence on some state governors. It was on this basis that my team was asked to handle issue of Abia state”.

The EFCC investigator further told the court how his commission wrote letters to some banks that were identified by its intelligence information.

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