The Civil Society {Groups} of Good Governance (CSGGG), has rejected claims that the Authorized Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) has dismissed a petition filed towards the Deputy Speaker of the Home of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu.
President of the Group, Chief Dominic Ogakwu, in a press assertion, Thursday in Abuja, stated: “It was a pyrrhic reprieve for the embattled deputy speaker because the LPDC held that the problems raised within the petition had been outdoors its statutory jurisdiction.
“It’s mischievous and a transparent case of in search of authorized reprieve for allegations which might be properly documented to say that the LPDC dismissed claims of certificates fraud and perjury towards the Deputy Speaker of the Home of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu.
“What the LPDC merely stated was that it lacked the statutory jurisdiction to entertain the matter of how Mr. Kalu was enrolled by the Supreme Courtroom as a authorized practitioner and obtained his NYSC discharge certificates at about the identical time.
“The matter is simple: did the Deputy Speaker take part within the NYSC scheme on the identical time he was present process coaching on the Nigerian Regulation College?
“If he did, which he did going by the timeline as evidenced in his NYSC discharge certificates and when he was known as to the Bar, do they contravene the provisions of the NYSC Act and the necessities of the Regulation College programme?
“Is it potential that Mr. Kalu misled the related authorities – the Nigerian Regulation College, the NYSC and the Physique of Benchers, thereby enabling him to acquire an NYSC discharge certificates and subsequently be enrolled on the Roll of Authorized Practitioners?
“These are posers which might be as plain as each day gentle which the Deputy Speaker ought to offer readability to with out the try to hoodwink and additional misled related authorities as he did prior to now.”
Ogakwu additional states: “We want to state that now we have been witnesses to this earlier than. Former Finance Minister, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, denied parading a cast NYSC certificates however later acquiesced to the irrefutable truth and resigned.
“Within the latest previous, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Expertise, Uche Nnaji, caught in the identical certificates imbroglio denied the allegations towards him, threatened regulation swimsuit and engaged in all types of authorized and robust armed gymnastics solely to bow to the inevitable.
“We’re dedicated and persuaded that this received’t be any totally different regardless of the occupant of the workplace. What the LPDC has finished is to abdicate its duty, however we’re undeterred in in search of readability, accountability and guaranteeing that solely these match and correct occupy any workplace for that matter, particularly one as excessive because the Workplace of the Deputy Speaker.
“We’ll proceed to the related our bodies and occupy the Nationwide Meeting. We dare say the Heavens is not going to fall even when judges within the temple of justice have been held as much as scrutiny and people discovered wanting have been shoved off their judicial perch. This received’t be any totally different.”