Erstwhile Chairman of the Nigeria Bar Association(NBA), Adamawa state branch, Mal. Aji Kamale, has tasked on government to ensure safety of legal practitioners planning to attend Annual General Conferencer of the NBA scheduled to hold between 22th to 29th, October 2021, in Portharcourt, Rivers state.
Equally, the former Chairman has called on the leardership of the NBA to do everything possible to guarantee the safety of the young lawyers more especially from the northern part of the country who will be enroute to Portharcourt for the event.
Mal. kamale, said that the lawyers including that of the northern part of the country are expected in Portharcourt on the fixed date, and that they are also expected to pass through Anambra, Enugu and Imo states respectively bedeveilled by security challenges in recent time.
He raised serious concern on the safety on the members of the barr considering the gruesome murder of Barr.Ameachi Udogaranya, Barr. A. A. Gulak, and the recent attack on Barr. Fabian Onwughulu along Anambra - Imo states in the South East.
He said sources had it that Udogaranya who until his brutal murder by yet to be identified gunmen, was a member of Oguta branch of the NBA, saying that the deceased was was on his way to pick his children from school where he was murdered, while Barr. Fabian, escaped death by whiskers.
According to him, the call on the government to provide adequate security to ensure safe trip of the young lawyers has become imperative because not all of them can afford to fly from their various states to Portharcourt due to the effect of economic hardship.
He extended his deepest condolences to the family of Barr. Ameachi and Gulak, and the entire NBA family, saying that they are still saddened by the dastardly act.
Mal. Aji Kamale, appealed to the government to provide more security as well as strive assidously to fish out the cowards who perpetrated the heinous crime, and wished his colleagues safe trip to Rivers state.
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