The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Wednesday struck out an appeal by the Federal Government to reopen the trial of a former governor of Abia Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu.
A three-member panel of the appellate court, in a unanimous decision, held that the record of appeal FG transmitted before it was incompetent.
The lead verdict delivered by Justice J. O. K. Oyewole, the court held that the FG failed to properly transmit the record as prescribed by its extant rules, adding that it was neither stamped nor the official designation of the person who signed it indicated.
The appellate court held that the flaw in the record that was brought before it vitiated the competence of the entire appeal.
Consequently, it struck out the two appeals marked: CA/ABJ/CV/797/2021 and CA/ABJ/CV/798/2021, which FG filed against kalu and his firm
It will be recalled that Kalu, who piloted the affairs of Abia State from 1999 to 2007, was earlier convicted and handed a 12-year jail term by the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court.
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