Falana blasts NBA for inviting former Liberian President Weah to annual conference 

Human rights lawyer Femi Falana, SAN, has lambasted the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, implicit its invitation of erstwhile Liberian President George Weah to its yearly conference.

In a video posted connected NBA’s YouTube channel, Falana alleged that Weah’s medication arsenic Liberia’s president undermined judicial independency and disregarded tribunal judgments.

DAILY POST recalls that Weah delivered a keynote code astatine the NBA’s 66th Annual General Conference successful Port Harcourt, Rivers State, wherever helium said a ‘tyrant with Certificate of Return remains a tyrant.’

According to Falana, the NBA should beryllium cautious astir inviting African leaders whom helium accused of failing to uphold antiauthoritarian principles and the regularisation of law.

“Ladies and gentlemen, I’m delighted to beryllium here. But fto maine accidental this, due to the fact that you cognize I person to beryllium frank with the audience. And this goes for the enactment of the Bar. I privation to entreaty that the Bar Association indispensable stop—stop inviting dictators successful Africa to travel and code us,” Falana said.

The elder lawyer further alleged that during Weah’s medication from 2018 to 2024, the Liberian judiciary was compromised to the grade that citizens had to question redress astatine the ECOWAS Court.

Falana blasts NBA for inviting erstwhile Liberian...