In this piece, Vanguard Law and Human Rights explores a couple of efforts in the past by lawyers to balkanize the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, including the on-going attempt by the controversial Kunle Ogunba-led Law Society of Nigeria, harvests views of lawyers on compulsory membership of NBA and argues that barring any unforeseen gymnastics, NBA, like a cat with nine lives, will definitely survive the present gathering storm.
Background
By an interim injunction, a Rivers State High Court sitting in Port-Harcourt in 1992 stopped Mrs. Priscilla Kuye-led Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, from going ahead with the election of its principal officers. Certain members of the NBA had approached the court at the time for the injunction following a rumour that certain groups had entered the Conference venue of the NBA in Port-Harcourt with hired thugs, disguised as lawyers, with the alleged aim of achieving a pre-determined outcome at the elections.
At that time, elections…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
