The president of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr Yakubu Maikyau (SAN), has called on the Federal Government and all relevant authorities to put in place practical, proactive, and pragmatic steps to stop extrajudicial killings and kidnappings of not only legal practitioners but all categories of persons in the country.
“We strongly and unequivocally condemn the repressive tendencies of the Taliban government to criminalise the practice of law and deplore the systemic extermination of Afghan lawyers by allegedly ‘unknown individuals.’
“The Nigerian Bar Association is also using the opportunity of this year’s International Day of the Endangered Lawyer to draw the attention of our home government to the sad reality that lawyers in this country are fast becoming an endangered specie. It will be recalled that on 23 December 23, 2001, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, was murdered in his house at Bodija, Ibadan, Oyo State.
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