Centre Asks Bar Association To Take Legal Action Against Nnamdi Kanu’s Lawyer Over Professional Misconduct

The Centre Against Injustice and Domestic Violence (CAIDOV) has asked the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to instrumentality disciplinary enactment against Mr Aloy Ejimakor counsel for the detained person of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu implicit alleged nonrecreational misconduct relating to his information successful the caller “Free Nnamdi Kanu” protestation successful Abuja.

In a connection signed by the group’s enforcement director, Comrade Gbenga Soloki, the radical condemned the lawyer’s quality and information astatine the protestation ground.

Soloki described Ejimakor’s enactment arsenic a wide breach of nonrecreational morals and a usurpation of the Rules of Professional Conduct (RPC) for Legal Practitioners 2023, peculiarly Rule 33, which deals with sub judice statements.

He said by joining a nationalist protestation concerning a lawsuit helium is handling successful court, Ejimakor acted successful a mode that could power nationalist cognition and perchance compromise the impartiality of the court.

He said, “The instrumentality expects that lawyers reason their cases successful court, not connected the streets, successful protestation grounds, oregon connected media platforms. Mr. Ejimakor’s information successful the protestation is tantamount to trying to sway nationalist sentiment and, by extension, the court’s presumption connected a substance inactive nether adjudication.”

The radical said the ineligible assemblage demands discipline, restraint, and respect for judicial processes, informing that “emotions indispensable ne'er override ethics.

“This enactment by Mr. Ejimakor amounts to nonrecreational misconduct. The instrumentality is not emotional, and each lawyer is bound by its standards, careless of who their lawsuit is,” the radical added.

It truthful urged the instrumentality enforcement agencies to analyse the lawyer’s actions to find if his engagement successful the protestation constituted a breach of nationalist information oregon contempt of court.

Also, the radical called connected the Nigerian Bar Association’s Disciplinary Committee to reappraisal Ejimakor’s behaviour and enforce due sanctions to sphere the integrity and credibility of the ineligible profession.