FG Renames Legal Aid Building after Late Chief Ikeazor *As Malami commends council for enhancing access to justice Alex Enumah in Abuja The federal government yesterday renamed the Legal Aid Council Head
The federal government yesterday renamed the Legal Aid Council Headquarters Building after the late Chief Chimezie Ikeazor.
“His antecedents in providing legal services to poor Nigerians are exemplary, and along with a few like minds – the late Chiefs Solomon Lar, Debo Akande, and Edwin Ume-Ezeoke, he founded and financed the Nigerian Legal Aid Association in 1974, which served as a platform for providing legal aid for poor Nigerians.
While pledging his ministry’s support towards achieving the constitutional and statutory mandate of the Legal Aid Council, the minister commending the council for living up to expectations. “The Police Duty Solicitors Scheme of the Council currently operate in eleven States across the country. This operation has successfully diverted over 7,000 persons from the Criminal Justice System and 90 per cent of these persons left police custody during the first five days of arrest.