*Watson-Jack Reacts, Describes Suspension As Breach Of NBA Constitution And Right To Fair Hearing.
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The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has suspended its former General Secretary, Mr. Nimi Watson-Jack as a member of the NBA National Executive Council (NBA-NEC).
According to information privy to TheNigeriaLawyer, the suspension was as a result of his involvement in championing a splinter body for lawyers called the Law Society of Nigeria few months ago.
TheNigeriaLawyer recalls that the NBA-NEC had agreed during its last quarterly meeting in Abuja that Mr. Nimi Walson-Jack, who acted as a Solicitor to the promoters of the new Law Society be stripped of his privileges as past General Secretary and consequently, be suspended from being a member of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Association.
However, in a swift reaction, the Former NBA Scribe describes the suspension as unconstitutional, saying it violated the letters of the NBA Constitution and his right to fair hearing under the 1999 Constitution.
In a statement sighted by TheNigeriaLawyer, he lamented that “Both the process and substance of arriving at the resolution to sanction me have shown the NBA as being anti-Rule of Law and earned our previously esteemed Association a place in the hall of infamy of dictators and anti-Rule of Law elements who abound in mushroom organizations across Nigeria and the World.”
Listing what he described as “Litany of violations,” the former NBA General Secretary said: “The leadership of the NBA, by its resolution, breached the Constitution of the NBA, my fundamental right to a fair hearing, and the right of my Clients to Counsel of their choice. The President of the NBA was the accuser, persecutor, prosecutor, and Judge in his cause.”
He stated that the NBA-NEC “has no power to suspend, expel or remove a statutory member like me unless the Constitution is amended, an exclusive preserve of the Annual General Meeting,” adding that “The leadership of the NBA, by its resolution, breached the Constitution of the NBA, my fundamental right to a fair hearing, and the right of my Clients to Counsel of their choice. The President of the NBA was the accuser, persecutor, prosecutor, and Judge in his cause.”
Alleging that “the leadership of the Bar led by and including Senior Advocates of Nigeria was blinded by dislike or hate of my person” in the resolution to suspend him, Walson-Jack urged that international lawyers’ organizations, members of the legal profession in Nigeria and abroad, the Nigerian judiciary, the media and Nigerians “must begin to question the commitment of the leadership of the Nigerian Bar Association to promote the Rule of Law.”
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