after being found guilty on all the 39 count charges brought against him.
He was convicted of N7.65billion fraud perpetuated when he was Abia State governor between 1999 and 2007. Kalu was convicted alongside his firm, Slok Nigeria Limited and his former Abia State director of finance, Ude Udeogu.The former governor claimed that he had health challenges that could not be managed at the medical facilities in the Custodial Centre, Ikoyi, Lagos and prayed the court to grant him bail., asking the court to dismiss it.
“Although bail is generally a right of an accused as guaranteed by the Constitution,” EFCC’s lawyer Rotimi Jacobs said, “it is not a right available to a convict because the presumption of innocence had crystallised into guilt and conviction.”
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
You die there.
Hasn't he been sentenced? Didn't he cease to be an accused since the sentence but a convict?
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