Protest: Group faults Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer, urges NBA to review conduct

By Luminous Jannamike

ABUJA — The Centre Against Injustice and Domestic Violence (CAIDOV) has called connected the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to reappraisal the behaviour of Mr. Aloy Ejimakor, counsel to the detained person of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, pursuing his information successful the caller #FreeNnamdiKanu protestation successful Abuja.

In a connection issued by its Executive Director, Comrade Gbenga Soloki, CAIDOV expressed interest that Ejimakor’s beingness astatine the protestation whitethorn person violated provisions of the Rules of Professional Conduct (RPC) for Legal Practitioners 2023, peculiarly Rule 33, which cautions lawyers against making nationalist statements susceptible of influencing ongoing ineligible proceedings.

“The instrumentality expects that lawyers reason their cases successful court, not connected the streets, astatine protestation grounds, oregon done the media,” Soloki said.

“Mr. Ejimakor’s information successful the protestation could beryllium seen arsenic an effort to sway nationalist sentiment and, by extension, the court’s presumption connected a substance inactive nether adjudication.”

The radical stressed that ineligible practitioners handling progressive cases are expected to workout utmost restraint to forestall immoderate enactment that mightiness impact the cognition of fairness oregon impartiality successful judicial processes.

“The ineligible assemblage demands discipline, restraint, and respect for the sanctity of judicial proceedings. Emotions indispensable ne'er override nonrecreational ethics,” CAIDOV stated.

The organisation besides urged instrumentality enforcement agencies to analyse whether immoderate laws oregon procedural standards were breached during the protest.

Additionally, CAIDOV called connected the NBA Disciplinary Committee to analyse the substance and instrumentality indispensable enactment to uphold nonrecreational integrity and nationalist assurance successful the justness system.

“We judge the NBA should enactment swiftly to reaffirm that nonrecreational morals stay the cornerstone of ineligible signifier successful Nigeria,” the radical added.

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