Orji Uzor Kalu have become the governor of Abia State when he changed into now not yet forty and dominated the kingdom for eight years among 1999 and 2007. He capped a existence on the quick lane with his recent election because the senator representing Abia North, ultimately rising as the Chief Whip within the higher chamber of the National Assembly.
But all that took a dramatic flip penultimate Thursday together with his conviction by means of the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court which sentenced him to 12 years imprisonment for N7.Sixty five billion fraud while he held sway as Abia State governor.
Although he has come to be a prison inmate since then, Sentry collected that the fact of his new situation did not dawn on him till a number of his associates started out to visit him inside the jail. Recall that the former governor reportedly requested the jail officials who led him out of the court after the judge said his conviction: “Where are we going now?”
A few days after he landed in jail, one among his commercial enterprise buddies became said to have paid him a sympathy visit however became bowled over at the pitiable image cut by the former governor, who changed into stated to be carrying a couple of lavatory slippers.
“See me now consuming inside the prison,” a pensive Kalu reportedly told his tourist, who struggled to find the words that would console him. An erstwhile colleague of his as governor, who spent a while in incarceration, also visited him. The flamboyant ex-governor suggested him to live sturdy and regard his travails as another phase of lifestyles.
Sentry gathered that the previous Abia State governor has been moved from Lagos to the Kuje Prison in Abuja for motives nobody could fathom.
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