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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has gotten the Supreme Court’s permission to prosecute former Abia State Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu.
The apex court on Friday ordered the former governor to submit himself fpr trial for the money laundering charges instituted against him by the EFCC in 2007.
The court also dismissed a similar appeal by an associate to Kalu, Udeh Jones Udehogow on similar grounds.
Justice Suleiman Galadima, who read the lead judgments in both appeals, upheld the concurrent decisions of the Federal High Court, Abuja and the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, which had both earlier dismissed the accused persons’ objection to their trial.
The five-man panel of the apex court directed the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court to assign both cases to new judges for hearing.
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