Alleged N7.6bn Fraud: I Spent My Money To Run Abia For Six Months, Orji Kalu Tells Court.
A former governor of Abia State and the lawmaker representing Abia North Senatorial District, Orji Uzor Kalu, said he spent his personal money to run the state for six months.
“Abia State doesn’t have such amount,” he told the court, adding, “Even the day I was leaving, we borrowed money to pay salaries. Abia State didn’t have even a billion naira in any account at the time I was governor.” He said, “In the year 2000, monthly allocation was between N170 million and N189 million. In 2001, it came to about N302 million to about N380 million. I can recollect in 2002, it was almost the same and in 2003 when the revenue allocation was changed, we were having about N400 million.
The former governor, however, claimed that he gave former President Olusegun Obasanjo the sum of 100 million Naira after he was released from prison in 1998. “I was also into shipping activities with major oil companies. We also have a very big corn farm in the East and Bauchi.
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