Former Abia State Governor and Senator representing Abia North, Orji Uzor Kalu, has revealed that he previously traded in heavy weapons internationally, selling to buyers in different countries regardless of their intended use.
Kalu made the disclosure on Arise Television, where he confirmed that he was once an arms dealer but later abandoned the business after his parents urged him to stop.
“My mother and my father told me to stop, and I stopped”, he said.
Kalu said he was not concerned about how the weapons would be used, insisting that his primary interest at the time was making money.
“I was selling guns to make money. Whether they blow [up] people was not my business”, he stated.
Asked whether he supplied weapons to the African National Congress, ANC, during the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, Kalu denied that the organisation was his specific customer.
“No, I was selling to anybody who wants to buy”, he said.
He was also asked whether he supplied weapons to Libya under former leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Kalu responded that he sold to anybody with the money to buy, describing Gaddafi as a good man. He, however, declined to reveal where he sourced the weapons, saying the information was his private business.
He further disclosed that his arms business operated across different countries as long as they had the financial capacity to buy.
This revelation has drawn attention to Kalu’s past business activities and his account of relationships with prominent African leaders, including Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma.
-9News Nigeria.
