* Decries Nonchalant Attitude By Police Over Killings
* Proposes Escalation Of The Issue To IGP
The Chairman of the Port-Harcourt Branch of the Nigerian Bar
Association has raised a brow on why the EFCC organizes
Paid-Conferences for Judges. This was raised at the NBA-NEC meeting
held at the NBA Secretariat, Abuja.
The NEC after a careful observation of the issue raised, said
that Judicial Officers should be warned not to take bananas from
the Commission.
The Council saw no reason why the anti-graft agency will be
hosting judges and paying them, thereafter. Perhaps, what must have
informed the reaction is the fact that the Commission is a
prosecutor of financial-related crimes, whose appearance is to be
announced and entered before the same men of the bench.
NEC members further call for action over the harassment of
lawyers by law enforcement agencies. NEC raised this issue
following the alarming cases of lawyers been brutalized by
policemen in the course of doing their duties in different parts of
the Country.
In the same vain, the Council decried the nonchalant attitude of
Police to their duties. The Council cited the case of a lawyer who
was kidnapped and killed in Ekiti State. According to them, the
place where the ungodly act was perfected is known to be notorious
for such acts, and yet, the Police acted indifferent towards the
gruesome act.
It was therefore resolved that the NBA be tasked to escalate the
issue to the Inspector General of Police.
Also, the NEC tasked the NBA to come up with a policy to arrest
the tide of clients presenting already drafted Deed for the sale of
property worth over N5m to lawyers to frank and pay the lawyer
N5k.
The aim is to channel practice to far-reaching realities of the
times.
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