EFCC trial: Political vendetta against Orji Kalu because of APC ticket - HURIWA

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Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has carpeted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), accusing the agency of targeting

the most senior South Eastern political office holder in the current dispensation, the Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu.

HURIWA also tasked the EFCC to tell Nigerians what the logic is in seeking to transfer the trial of a matter alleged to have happened in Abia State to Lagos State, wondering if the South East has become the outpost of the South West of Nigeria and described this as provocative as well as vexatious. The motion on notice seeking the transfer was brought pursuant to sections 18, 19, 22 and 45 of the Federal High Court Act 2010 and Section 93 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015.

Oluwaleke Atolagbe, counsel to EFCC, said the motion was predicated on five grounds among which are that the Abuja division of the Federal High Court lacked the requisite territorial jurisdiction to entertain and try the defendants in the instant charge. It was also contended that following the decision of the Supreme Court that many of the ingredients of the offences against them occurred in Lagos and even most of the witnesses who are bank workers reside in Lagos, the EFCC applied to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court to transfer the matter to Lagos.

 

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