Legal luminary, Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, has taken a step further in the expression of his anger against Lagos-based legal practitioner, Dele Farotimi over the alleged defamation of his character.
The elder statesman, through his law firm, has written a petition to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, LPDC, asking that Farotimi 's name be removed from the roll of legal practitioners in Nigeria . According to the petitioner, as Channels Television reported, Farotimi had allegedly violated certain provisions of the rules of professional conduct for lawyers.
reported that Farotimi was recently sent back to jail after the ruling on his bail application was adjourned till December 20, 2024. The FCT High Court had also barred human rights lawyer from further publishing, selling, circulating, advertising or distributing the hard or soft copies of the controversial book.
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