The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) has rejected a request to dismiss a petition against Ikechukwu Ezechukwu, SAN, and two other lawyers, Barrister Smart Ukpanah and Barrister Hope Onyekwere. The decision was made during a panel sitting chaired by Mr. Kalu Umeh, SAN, where counsel for Ezechukwu, Barrister D. O. Okolo, presented the case.
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