Nnamdi Kanu: Lawyer accuses NBA of engaging in jamboree ‘while criminal justice burns’

A lawyer, Christopher Chidera, has slammed the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, for failing to talk up and intervene successful what helium described arsenic injustice and unfair proceedings of person of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.

Chidera, a subordinate of the Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Global Legal Consortium, said the NBA has go a spectator to the demolition of the transgression justness strategy successful Nigeria. The lawyer made the assertion successful a missive addressed to the enactment of the NBA, and copied to the International Bar Association, IBA.

The NBA is presently holding its yearly normal successful Port Harcourt, Rivers State, with astir 23,000 ineligible practitioners from crossed Nigeria said to beryllium successful attendance.

Frowning astatine the NBA’s soundlessness connected Kanu’s case, Chidera accused the relation of cowardice.

He said, “The NBA is holding a jamboree portion transgression justness burns. As you vino and dine astatine the NBA jamboree successful Port Harcourt, the foundations of Nigerian transgression justness are being acceptable ablaze successful Abuja.

“And the astir disgraceful portion is not simply that this is happening. It is that the Nigerian Bar Association is watching it hap and has chosen silence. This is nary longer nonrecreational neutrality. It is cowardice. This is nary longer respectable silence. It is complicity by silence.”

He expressed interest that the NBA that erstwhile produced Gani Fawehinmi, “the fearless...