Senator Natasha has applied to the LPDC and seeks disbandment of Senate Ethics Committee Chairman Imasuen.
Nigeria News Nalin It is reported that the suspended senator, representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has filed a petition with the Legal Practitioners Discipline Committee (LPDC) and seeks to use Senator Edo South South (Nedamwem Imasuen) as a lawyer.
Imaseun is chair of the Senate Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition Committee, which recommends multiple punitive measures against Natasha during the Senate plenary session.
In a petition filed with the LPDC, Natasha claimed that on May 10, 2010, the Appeal Division of the New York Supreme Court alleged and denied that the chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee “fraud, abuse of client funds, and failure to respond to the subject authorities.”
To support her claim, the petitioner submitted a copy of the 2010 Justia New York case law to the LPDC, titled “Imasuen” and promised to provide more evidence from the official records of the defendant’s departure during the trial.
Senator Natasha told the LPDC that after the disbandment of the defendant in the U.S. court, a Daphne Slyfield filed a complaint against him, who paid him a lot of legal fees but was waived without legal action.
“The court ruled that the defendant violated several professional rules, resulting in the revocation of his statutory license in the United States.
“After the dissolution of the respondent, he moved to Nigeria and continued to appear as a legal practitioner and pursued a political career, eventually serving as a senator in the National Assembly for the Representative Senator Edo South District.
“Although this dissolution is dependent on immoral conduct, the defendant has not disclosed the sanction, both in the legal world and in the political space, as a senator and eventually appointed chairman of the Senate Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions Committee, a comprehensive position that requires undistinguishable.
“The defendant did not disclose his divest remotely in the form of EC9, which is the details of the personal information submitted to INEC when he was sworn in public office.”
Senator Natasha said her petition to LPDC originated from a series of events that raised questions about the integrity and ethical standards of respondents.
She accused Senator Imasuen of publicly ignoring the interim order issued by the Federal High Court in Abuja on March 4, which prevented his committee from continuing to disciplinary action against her. She added that the defendant, who had properly notified the interim order, also showed contempt to the court, proposing a six-month moratorium on her, eventually receiving approval from the Senate in the plenary session.
