Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State has recalled the state’s Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Cyprian Akaolisa, saying his sack three months ago was in error.
Akaolisa was in June interdicted and suspended for five years by the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) for professional misconduct.
The governor had on May 12, announced the dismissal of 20 members of his cabinet, including Akaolisa.
But in a statement on Monday, the governor said that Akaolisa was never among the commissioners dropped when the executive council was dissolved.
Information and Strategy Commissioner, Declan Emelumba, said an error occurred when the sack of the cabinet was announced to include Akaolisa and was deeply regretted.
A six-man Disciplinary Committee, headed by Dauda J.B. (SAN) on Friday, July 9, 2021, found Chief Akaolisa guilty of the allegations contained in the petition against him.
Akaolisa was accused of using his position as the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice to facilitate the bail of a murder suspect, who had been remanded in Prison Custody and standing trial since 2013, before Justice Onii Egbunighe of Orlu High Court (2).
The suspect, Paulinus Nwanochie, has been standing trial over the murder of Alphonsus Akuma, all from Orlu LGA.
Akaolisa was also the lawyer to the suspect, before he was appointed attorney-general.
