*Ogunwumiju , Falana, others to speak at NBA-SPIDEL town hall meeting Feb. 28

The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA-SPIDEL) is in the final leg of its planning for a town-hall meeting billed for 28 February, 2022, 12 Noon prompt at Marriot Hotel in Lagos.

The town hall meeting, themed “Justiciability of Chapter 2 of the 1999 Constitution – the need for the Nigerian Judicial System to be more proactive”, is being organised by the NBA-SPIDEL. Olumide Akpata, NBA president, will be the Chief Host of the event while Dr. Monday Ubani, NBA-SPIDEL chairman, will be the host.

The aim of the town hall meeting is to arouse the consciousness of the various institutions that are under the mandate to provide socio-economic rights to Nigerians.

The town hall meeting will specifically seek to bring to the awareness of the Nigerian judiciary the abiding responsibility it owes the citizens of Nigeria to interpret the 1999 constitution to give life to the spirit and letter behind it.

The town hall meeting, which will take a hybrid form, will have not more than 200 persons attending physically while the rest will link up online.

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The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA-SPIDEL) has confirmed that Hon. Justice Eko Ejembi of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), human rights lawyer, will be speaking at its town hall meeting. While Ejembi will chair the event, Falana will be the lead speaker.

Also announced that there will be two plenary sessions, with discussants that include Hon. Luke Eniofiok, chairman, House Committee on Judiciary, Justice Kazeem Alogba, Chief Judge of Lagos State, Onuoha Ogwe, Chief Judge of Abia State, Yemi Adamolekun, Executive Director, Enough is Enough (EiE), and Kolawole Oluwadare, Deputy Director, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP).

Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed is also expected as the lead speaker in the second plenary that will have discussants that include Moyosore Onigbanjo, Lagos State Attorney General & Commissioner for Justice, Olawale Fapohunda, Ekiti State Attorney General & Commissioner for Justice, among others.

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