Igbo youths demand probe into allegations against Deputy Speaker, Kalu

The Coalition of South East Youth Leaders, COSEYL, has called for a thorough probe into allegations against the lawman Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Okezie Kalu.

Report had it connected February 20, 2027, that a erstwhile First Vice President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. John Aikpokpo-Martins, petitioned the Legal Practitioners’ Disciplinary Committee, LPDC, and the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, requesting a reappraisal of Kalu’s records.

In abstracted letters sent to the 2 authorities establishments, Aikpokpo-Martins urged the authorities to analyse issues concerning Kalu’s play astatine the Nigerian Law School and his NYSC work year.

The allegations questioned the validity of Kalu’s enrolment arsenic a ineligible practitioner and the authenticity of his NYSC certificate.

Reacting, COSEYL successful a connection issued connected Wednesday by its President General, Goodluck Ibem, said the allegations “must not beryllium ignored, politicised, oregon swept nether the carpet.”

According to the coalition, the integrity of the authorities institutions “is bigger than immoderate individual, nary substance however highly placed.”

The connection added that a “thorough probe by the NYSC authorities to ascertain the authenticity of each applicable records” is needed, stressing that the findings upon decision of probe should beryllium made public.

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