The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu has revealed
lessons he learned from the Kuje correctional centre Abuja when he was
incarcerated over alleged fraud while serving as governor of Abia State.
Recall that Kalu was convicted by the Lagos Division of the
Federal High Court on December 5, 2019, and sentenced to 12 years in prison
over alleged N7.65 billion misappropriation.
However, Justice Mohammed Liman of the Lagos Division of the
Federal High Court on June 2, 2020, ordered the former governor’s release,
leading to his freedom after six months.
In a statement on his verified Facebook page on Sunday to
the mark two years of his ordeal, the lawmaker said his perception of life
changed while in the prison.
Senator Orji who noted that he learnt how to forgive even
his enemies, said the prison ordeal reformed him and made him a better man,
stressing that he had forgiven those who conspired against him.
The statement reads in part, “My dear friends and
compatriots, I am grateful to God for the six months I spent in Kuje; He
sanctioned it. God knows I fear no one except Him.
“Those who conspired against me wanted me buried at all
cost, but like the biblical Job, there is a sense in which God allowed those
temporary and tragic events to happen to Job.
“My perception of life changed after the six months of
incarceration – life is vanity. I did not just learn a lot of lessons, I became
a reformed and better man. I was very impacted by what happened to me. More
than ever, I have relearned that kindness and forgiveness are what should rule
the world, not wickedness.
“I have since forgiven all the people that were instrumental
to my ordeal. I forgive them because they probably did not know what they were
doing.
“I recall that on the first night I slept in the prison, I
was questioning God. On the third day, God told me He allowed me to be
imprisoned for a purpose and for a short time. I vividly recall I was scheduled
to be in Wuhan, China on December 9, 2019, but my incarceration halted my
journey”.
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