The siege followed a threat by the NBA led by its Chairman, Adesina Ogunlana, to call out members on a protest tomorrow to coincide with President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Lagos.
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Alhassan told News Agency of Nigeria in Dutse on Friday that the governor paid a total fine of over N2 million to facilitate the release of the inmates with minor cases.
The Chairman, Adeshina Ogunlana, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday that the reduction by the Governor Akinwunmi Ambode led-administration is “unacceptable”.
The walk, which started from the NBA secretariat, Ikeja, took the protesters to the Lagos State Governor’s Office and House of Assembly, Alausa.
Our take up point in this brief intervention would be to condemn in un-mistaken terms, reports in the news media particularly that of The PUNCH newspaper of Thursday, 8th, 2018 where a purported seven-days ultimatum was issued to the Lagos State Government by one, Mr. Adeshina Ogunlana, the Chairman, NBA, Ikeja branch to reverse the Land Use Charge Law, 2018.
Akaraiwe made the assertion while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria in Port Harcourt on the recent report of the Transparency International, ranking Nigeria low in corruption fight.
The position of the police was contained in a statement on Tuesday.
The statement, signed by the spokesman of the Command, SP Chike Oti, reads: “The Lagos State Police Command hereby advises the Ikeja branch of the Nigeria Bar Association led by Mr. Adesina Ogunlana to shelve their planned protest slated for tomorrow 20th February, 2018 as all avenues to resolving their grievances have not been exploited.
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Agbakor, who made the call on Saturday in Makurdi, while interacting with journalists, said the situation where herdsmen kill, rape, maim people and destroy their properties was unacceptable.
Speaking while receiving the National Executive Committee of the NBA at the State House on Thursday in Abuja, the President warned that a collapse of public confidence in the justice system will have disastrous consequences for the entire country.
Ezenwa Anumnu, the Chairman of the chapter, made the commendation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Abuja.
Led by Comrade Ogenyi Okpokwu, NUAC, in a protest letter submitted to the National President of the NBA, Abubakar Mahmoud, also called on the umbrella body of lawyers to set up an independent body to investigate issues of corruption in the profession, with the aim of excommunicating the bad eggs
Some of those who responded to the threat accused the NBA of encouraging corruption, adding that it was an indication that “corruption is fighting back” against the anti-corruption campaign of the government.
Adeniyi said: “In view that the annual vacation is drawing to a close and the new legal year is approaching, I will send the file back to the chief judge for reassignment in the new legal year
“Though there had been low standards in the profession that is not to say there are no good lawyers with Good ethical conducts.”
He said the Association had zero tolerance for corruption in all its activities and recognized that the country was ravaged by the cankerworm of corruption
The Chairman of the association, Emmanuel Agbakor, told journalists in Makurdi on Monday that Jirgba was kidnapped in the early hours of Monday by armed youths in his house on Badagry Street in the state capital
The Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners, 2007, empowers the NBA to issue the stamp and seal and ensure compliance accordingly to all lawyers called to the Nigerian Bar
The Chairman of the chapter, Dr. Foluke Dada, made the appeal when she led other executives of the association on a courtesy visit to the House in Ado-Ekiti on Monday
The address of Alegeh at the meeting, which received a standing ovation, said: “We are surprised that the Port-Harcourt Branch has suspended a member of the branch and declared him as person non-grata without informing NEC.”