NBA Warns Non-Lawyers Against Using NBA Professional Sticker.

— Says Act Tantamount To Impersonation And Same Punishable Under
The Law.
— Sets Up Committee To Monitor Compliance In Partnership With
Security Agencies

Udu Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has asked
non-lawyers and unauthorised persons to desist from using the NBA
Stickers on the vehicles.

The branch made this call in a statement signed by the Publicity
Secretary, Austin Nyekigbe, Esq., following the report it
received.

According to the statement dated 8th March, 202,  titled,
‘UNLAWFUL USE OF NBA CAR STICKER BY UNAUTHORISED
PERSONS, and made available to TheNigerialawyer(TNL), the
Car Stickers is meant only for lawyers and their
identifications.

“It has come to the attention of the Nigerian Bar Association,
Udu Branch that some members of the public who are neither Lawyers
nor authorized to use the NBA Car Sticker are in possession of and
have same affixed to their Cars within Udu and its environs.

We wish to reiterate that the NBA Car Sticker is meant for the
use of only Lawyers and the primary purpose is to identify Lawyers
in the Society.”

The statement further states that anything short of the above
amounts to impersonation and punishable under the extant Laws.

“We call on all erring members of the public to desist from
further use of the NBA Car Sticker, forthwith or face the wrath of
the Law.

“We also wish to inform members of the Public that the Udu
Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association has constituted an NBA Car
Sticker Committee and has notified all Law enforcement Agencies to
fish out members of the Public who are not Lawyers but are in
possession of and has the NBA Car Sticker affixed to their Cars
within Udu and its environs.

“The Law enforcement Agencies together with the Members of the
NBA Car Sticker Committee will man the roads for the purpose of
fishing out erring members of the Public in the coming days.

“Let wise counsel prevail,”  Nyekigbe, added.

— Says Act Tantamount To Impersonation And Same Punishable Under
The Law.
— Sets Up Committee To Monitor Compliance In Partnership With
Security Agencies

Udu Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has asked
non-lawyers and unauthorised persons to desist from using the NBA
Stickers on the vehicles.

The branch made this call in a statement signed by the Publicity
Secretary, Austin Nyekigbe, Esq., following the report it
received.

According to the statement dated 8th March, 202,  titled,
‘UNLAWFUL USE OF NBA CAR STICKER BY UNAUTHORISED
PERSONS, and made available to TheNigerialawyer(TNL), the
Car Stickers is meant only for lawyers and their
identifications.

“It has come to the attention of the Nigerian Bar Association,
Udu Branch that some members of the public who are neither Lawyers
nor authorized to use the NBA Car Sticker are in possession of and
have same affixed to their Cars within Udu and its environs.

We wish to reiterate that the NBA Car Sticker is meant for the
use of only Lawyers and the primary purpose is to identify Lawyers
in the Society.”

The statement further states that anything short of the above
amounts to impersonation and punishable under the extant Laws.

“We call on all erring members of the public to desist from
further use of the NBA Car Sticker, forthwith or face the wrath of
the Law.

“We also wish to inform members of the Public that the Udu
Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association has constituted an NBA Car
Sticker Committee and has notified all Law enforcement Agencies to
fish out members of the Public who are not Lawyers but are in
possession of and has the NBA Car Sticker affixed to their Cars
within Udu and its environs.

“The Law enforcement Agencies together with the Members of the
NBA Car Sticker Committee will man the roads for the purpose of
fishing out erring members of the Public in the coming days.

“Let wise counsel prevail,”  Nyekigbe, added.