LPDC dismisses complaint against Deputy Speaker, Benjamin Kalu

The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, LPDC, has dismissed a ailment filed against Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu, stating that nary prima facie lawsuit was established against him.

A certified existent transcript of the committee’s ruling, with notation fig BB/LPDC/1954/2026, was made disposable to journalists, efficaciously closing the matter.

The ruling, signed by Umeh Kalu, SAN, a elder subordinate of the LPDC panel, delivered a decisive verdict successful favour of the respondent.

The LPDC panel, successful a thorough and unambiguous opinion, stated that it recovered the ailment fundamentally flawed some procedurally and substantively.

“The Statement of Facts was erroneously addressed to the Chairman of the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee alternatively than the Chairman of the LPDC, arsenic required nether Rule 4 of the LPDC Rules, 2020.

“While we chose to place this error, it could not rescue the ailment connected merit,” the sheet stated.

On the allegations relating to NYSC participation, Nigerian Law School training, and enrollment astatine the Supreme Court, the sheet said they fell wholly extracurricular the LPDC’s jurisdiction.

“The LPDC is established solely to modulate the nonrecreational behaviour of enro...