NBA probes Imo branch over alleged ‘mismanagement’ of N100m govt gift

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, connected Thursday announced that it has constituted a three-man sheet to analyse allegations of fiscal impropriety pursuing a N100 cardinal acquisition from the Imo State Government to the Owerri branch.

NBA said the sheet would analyse allegations concerning the receipt, absorption and disbursement of the N100 cardinal gift, noting that the process would beryllium orderly and transparent.

President of NBA, Mrs Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, SAN, who acceptable up the panel, explained that probing the subdivision became imperative pursuing concerns raised by members.

Members of the Owerri subdivision had dragged the president and different members of the enforcement earlier the nationalist enactment aft they alleged that they couldn’t relationship for however the N100 cardinal was expended.

The NBA President listed the NBA General Secretary, Afam Okeke, Third Vice-President, Iniobong Irene Pepple and Treasurer, Esther Jimoh, arsenic members of the probe panel.

“I person constituted a three-member committee to analyse allegations of impropriety concerning the receipt, absorption and disbursement of the N100 cardinal acquisition from the Imo State Government to the NBA Owerri Branch.

“This involution follows concerns raised by members of the subdivision and a requisition by 183 members for an Extraordinary General Meeting,” Mrs Badejo-Okusanya said.

She disclosed that the ...