Lawyer petitions CJN over NBA’s alleged selective deployment of disciplinary committee

A legislative lawyer, Dr. Tonye Clinton Jaja, has petitioned the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, implicit alleged selective usage of the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, LPDC, by the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA.

LPDC is the assemblage that is charged with disciplining ineligible practitioners recovered to beryllium progressive successful acts of misconduct. The CJN chairs the LPDC.

Jaja, Secretary of the Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, ALDRAP, and erstwhile part-time Chairman of the Governing Board of the Nigerian Copyright Commission, NCC, urged the CJN to intervene successful the concern successful a petition dated March 1, 2027.

The lawyer specifically asked the CJN to “urgently intervene to prevention the ineligible assemblage by cleaning retired the Augean Stables of the NBA’s selective usage and maltreatment of the LPDC arsenic a sword of witch-hunt of immoderate lawyers portion acting arsenic a shield by refusal to enforce LPDC decisions against their affable lawyers”.

He listed instances wherever the NBA failed to authorisation immoderate lawyers portion astatine the aforesaid clip sanctioning others for alleged akin offenses.

Jaja, who is presently grooming the lawyers with the Lesotho M...