IPNews-Monrovia: The Liberia National Bar Association (LNBA) has reportedly expelled Ndubusi Nwabudike from the bar over ‘Fake Citizenship’

Nwabudike, a Nigerian national is currently the chairman of the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission, but has since come under serious questioning over his conflicting nationalities.

Cllr. Nwabudike was once nominated by President George Weah to head the National Elections Commission, but was later withdrew by the Liberian leader after it was established that he could be rejected by members of the Liberian Senate over claims of him being a liberian.

He couldn’t authenticate such.

It may be recalled, Senator Abraham Darius Dillon (LP, Montserrado County) called for the intervention of the Liberian Senate in getting Cllr. Ndubuisi Nwabudike out of the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) over controversies surrounding his Liberian citizenship.

Senator Dillon, in a communication to the Senate’s Plenary, stated that Part IV Section 6.3 of the Act creating the LACC requires that only citizens of Liberia are eligible to serve as Commissioner of the anti-graft institution, and Cllr. Nwabudike, as Chairman does not meet the criteria “Mr. Pro-temp we hold strongly that Mr. Ndubuisi Nwabudike, a Citizen of Nigeria by birth has not demonstrated or proven to be a Liberian and manner of acquisition of Liberian Citizenship, as he claimed before this august body during his confirmation hearings,” Senator Dillon wrote in his letter.

He added that his communication was intended to formally invite the intervention of the Senate over the issue of grave national concern.

He urged his colleagues to take proper and appropriate measures to uphold, protect and defend the integrity and credibility of the LACC.

Meanwhile, Section 6.3 of the LACC Act as referenced by Senator Dillon states that “Each member of the Commission shall be a Liberian Citizen of not less than thirty (30) years of age of good moral character in the community, and with proven records in anticorruption advocacy or professional training and/or experience in law, law enforcement, accounting, auditing or a related field.

It adds: “The membership of the commission shall also be drawn to reflect the broad spectrum of society, provided further that no two commissioners shall have the same county of origin and all five not be of the same gender.”