As lawyers across Nigeria elect a new President of the Nigerian Bar Association today, a key question that should be asked is if the foremost association of lawyers has lived up to the expectations of
Nigerians. If truth must be told, the answer is an overwhelming no. Not only is the NBA performing below expectations, its relevance and impact seem to be in a continuous decline and increasingly being perceived as self-serving, divided and unpatriotic. In all the key areas of vision, mission, motto and core values, there is none that Nigerians and even the NBA can really be proud of their achievements.
With such poor performance, the question for all the lawyers that are eligible to vote and be voted for is what kind of NBA President we want as lawyers and as Nigerians. Before I provide some insights, it is important to note the following. The problem with the NBA is that it seems to be in continuous deviation of what it should be and stand for. Rather than being a vanguard of social change and good governance, the NBA now seems to represent and amplify the Nigeria leadership problem.
As every law student is taught in their first year, law is just a set of norms and values of a people used in moderating society. When the law is documented, it becomes a formal law while the undocumented ones remain as informal laws. The effectiveness of a law depends on the extent to which the law is accepted, understood, internalised and complied with.
Using the above, Nigeria cannot be said to be a good example. While an alien, misunderstood and forced formal legal system is used in our formal governance system, the informal legal system moderated our ethnic groups. Not only did we arrogate superiority to the English legal system, we rejected and denigrated our informal legal system in our formal governance systems.
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