By Edith Nwapi
The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan on Sunday called on lawyers in the country to practice the law profession to enhance dispensation of justice.
Onaiyekan made this call at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Maitama, during a thanksgiving mass by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Abuja branch, to mark 2018 law week.
The cardinal said that the law profession is noble as well as sacred.
“Noble in the sense because it upholds the rule of law without which there shall be no justice.
” The rule of law means that the wicked shall be demolished and the innocent shall breathe freely.
” And in being sacred, lawyer should always make an attempt to reflect the will of God,” he said.
According to Onaiyekan, human laws are right when they are constructed in a manner that it conforms with the Will of God.
He added that when laws are being made by men and women elected into the National…
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