{"id":26734,"date":"2020-04-02T08:47:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T08:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=26734"},"modified":"2020-04-06T08:49:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T08:49:33","slug":"liberia-national-bar-association-sets-up-committee-to-investigate-cllr-nwabudikes-nationality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/liberia-national-bar-association-sets-up-committee-to-investigate-cllr-nwabudikes-nationality\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia National Bar Association Sets Up Committee to Investigate Cllr. Nwabudike\u2019s Nationality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Alpha Daffae Senkpeni<\/p>\n<p>Monrovia \u2013 The Liberia National Bar Association has setup a committee \u201cto review statements\u201d made by the Commissioner-designate of the National Elections Commission, Cllr. A. Ndubisi Nwabudike during his confirmation proceedings at the Liberian Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is gear toward determining if the Nigerian-born-Liberian illegally achieved his Liberian nationality in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>If it\u2019s proven, Cllr. Nwabudike risks being scrapped off his Bar Association\u2019s membership, a situation that might further prove detrimental for the current Chairman of the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission \u2013 the country\u2019s main anti-graft body.<\/p>\n<p>Cllr. Bobby Livingston, Secretary General of LNBA, told <em>FrontPageAfrica <\/em>on Wednesday, 1 April that the investigation will focus on the controversy and anomalies in Cllr. Nwabudike\u2019s responses about his naturalization to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The NEC Commissioner-designate has come under increasing public scrutiny since his nomination by President George Weah with some calling for the Liberian leader to rescind his preferment while others urging the Senate to turn him down.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/frontpageafricaonline.com\/front-slider\/liberia-national-bar-association-sets-up-committee-to-investigate-cllr-a-ndubisi-nwabudikies-nationality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/frontpageafricaonline.com\/front-slider\/liberia-national-bar-association-sets-up-committee-to-investigate-cllr-a-ndubisi-nwabudikies-nationality\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Alpha Daffae Senkpeni Monrovia \u2013 The Liberia National Bar Association has setup a committee \u201cto review statements\u201d made by the Commissioner-designate of the National Elections Commission, Cllr. A. Ndubisi Nwabudike during his confirmation proceedings at the Liberian Senate. The investigation is gear toward determining if the Nigerian-born-Liberian illegally achieved his Liberian nationality in 1982. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-liberia","type-news-articles","item-year-668","item-theme-nationality-of-politicians"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26737,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26734\/revisions\/26737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}