Lawyer to the leader of the
Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Emeka Ephraim Ugwuonye has been temporarily
banned from legal practice in Nigeria.
According to report gathered Ugwuonye recently joined the
legal team of Nnamdi Kanu.
The former United States-based
Nigerian lawyer, who was disbarred in New York and Maryland for professional
misconduct, was yesterday also disbarred in Nigeria, to which he had relocated,
for the
same offense.
same offense.
Ugwuonye’s sanction was ordered
by the Nigerian Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, LPDC, of the Body
of Benchers, a unit which punishes misconduct among lawyers.
LPDC ordered Chief Registrar of
the Supreme Court of Nigeria to strike out Ugwuonye’s name.
J.S. Okutepa (SAN) who is the
Chief Prosecutor of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) at the LPDC found
Ugwuonye liable for fraud and promised to give details of the direction of LPDC
in due course.
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