Ugwuonye, who recently joined the legal team of the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, was a former United States-based Nigerian lawyer, barred in New York and Maryland for alleged professional misconduct.

Ugwuonye’s sanction was ordered by the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC).

LPDC ordered the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court of Nigeria to strike out Ugwuonye’s name from the apex court’s scroll where names of every bonafide lawyer in the country are found.

Jibrin  Okutepa (SAN) who is the Chief Prosecutor of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) at the LPDC found Ugwuonye liable for fraud and promised to give details of the direction of LPDC in due course.

The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee is a body that regulates and ultimately sanctions lawyers for failure to comply with standards governing professional conduct of legal practitioners.

The primary purposes of disciplinary proceedings are the protection of the public, the courts and the legal profession; the maintenance of high professional standards by lawyers and the preservation of public confidence in the legal profession.