Friday, November 27, 2020
Corporate Social Responsibility: THE STORM IS YET TO BE OVER
Corporate Social Responsibility: THE STORM IS YET TO BE OVER: PETITION AND DEBATE: BRITISH PARLIAMENT'S FORMAL NOTICE OF THE DESTRUCTIVE AFTERMATH OF CHALLENGE OF IMPUNITY BY THE YOUTH TITLED #EN...
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THE STORM IS YET TO BE OVER
PETITION AND DEBATE:
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Tuesday, September 1, 2020
NBA SNEEZED AND THE NATION CAUGHT COLD
NBA SNEEZED AND THE NATION CAUGHT COLD
We must be able to clarify the issues that trailed the NBA 2020
conference as objectively as possible for posteriority. Invitation and dis-invitation are part of the
annual conference. In 2007 Prof Maurice
Iwu was invited and dis-invited heavens did not fall; this year Gov. Nasir
El-rufai was invited but protests from
the rank and file of lawyers and non-lawyers stopped his invitation and the
heavens is about to fall with the creation of a parallel bar for the North
where Gov El-rufai comes from.
The NBA as an umbrella body must exist before anyone seeking relevance
underneath the corpus. Therefore you and your cause cannot be bigger or more important than the superstructure. Religion is a personal burden of members not
that of NBA or its cause(s).
We have seen recently how members’ sectarian leanings blurred their
sense of judgment and you could notice sentiments overwhelming common legal
principle like ‘ubi jus ibi remedian’ (where there is a right there is a
remedy). Did the governor ever said, ‘hey why did NBA take away my right?’ –(legal
or equitable). Instead sympathisers,
gladiators, impostors, interlopers, meddlers etc. began to ask for the
restoration of non-existent ‘right’. But the governor has personal legal
adviser besides the public law officer of the state, Attorney-General and
Commissioner for Justice.
In the debate Edafeyivwotu Famous Onoriode posted a comment in LAWYERS
IN NIGERIA platform buttressing his position by quoting late senate Presidend,
Dr Chuba Okadigbo who said: ‘’If you are emotionally attached to your tribe,
religion or political leaning to the point that truth and justice become
secondary considerations, your education is useless. Your exposure is useless. If you cannot reason beyond petty sentiments,
you are a liability to mankind’’. I
replied to this comment ‘Just on point’. There is nothing in the unfolding
debate but sentiments, no legal or equitable right arises.
Religuos sentiments and bigotry take away all forms of knowledge
acquired by humans over time once it is deployed. As tempers are rising, the relics of modern civilisation
are depleting. The epitaph on
Shakespeare’s tomb says: ‘’Good friend for Jesus sake forebeare. To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that speares these
stones. And cursed be he that move my
bones’’. This has caused havoc whether it is a CURSE to move the grave because
of government’s compulsory acquisition of land etc, family/relative’s decision
to give ‘befitting final burial’ or even if British public protest that
Shakespeare should be re-buried in a national cemetery as a public figure. No matter how plausible these arguments are
there is already a controversy (religion) waiting to overwhelm rational views
comments.
In spite of my various comments on several social media platforms, what
I take away is the call for Council for Legal Education to craft Bar Final
examinations questions to reflect the scenario facing the nation now. NBA is not a political party. There are six Law schools in Nigeria, but are they established to produce lawyers for
regional and religious feuds?
Iyke Ozemena Esq
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Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Corporate Social Responsibility: NBA 2020 CONFERENCE WITHOUT GOV. EL-RUFAI
Corporate Social Responsibility: NBA 2020 CONFERENCE WITHOUT GOV. EL-RUFAI: NBA 2020 CONFERENCE WITHOUT GOV. EL-RUFAI I want to remind ourselves from the onset of this discourse that there is corporate responsibi...
NBA 2020 CONFERENCE WITHOUT GOV. EL-RUFAI
NBA 2020 CONFERENCE WITHOUT GOV. EL-RUFAI
I want to remind ourselves from the onset of this discourse that there
is corporate responsibility attached to public offices, sometimes symbolised by
taking of Oath of Office. It is partly for this reason that ordinary issue are
magnified or receive more attention than necessary. Nigerian Bar Association
(NBA) is one of the foremost organised civil society organization in the
country with clout and influence recognized by governments at all levels. The organization is known for its slogan ‘promoting
the rule of law’, which encompasses defending the Constitution of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria (the grundnorm), the judges, fundamental human right of
individuals and hold governments accountable to the people who elected them, as
the custodian of the conscience of the nation.
The NBA NEC has the responsibility to organize meetings and conferences
whenever necessary. In so doing a
technical organising committee is usually assigned to arrange the logistics and
protocols on behalf of NEC before the main meeting and this year’s conference
is not an exception even though virtual, which is substantially different from
previous ones.
One of the main and invariable features of is nomination/invitation of
speakers from broad spectrum of the society.
This year’s speaker happens to include Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, governor
of Kaduna state. Intrinsically the organizing committee in their assessment,
thought his inclusion would be welcome like other speakers. But it didn’t because no sooner the name
appeared on the proposal list than objections and protests by commentators both
lawyers and non-lawyers on various social media platforms went viral, calling
for his dis-invitation.
Some of the reasons advanced by these critics include crisis in Kaduna
state where the governor is the chief executive with its citizens divided along
ethnic and sectarian lines; disobedience to valid court orders; failure to
observe the tenets of the rule of law, and most importantly as the CEO, his
failure to maintain security and welfare of citizens which are the primary purpose
of government.
The NBA President in his letter to the embattled governor explaining
reasons for dis-invitation, maintained that these allegations were not ‘judgments’
by the NBA and I so align with that opinion. For governor El-Rufai there is no
love lost. He has an Attorney-General
and Commissioner for Justice, therefore no one northerner is justified to cry
more than the bereaved.
Without the governor instructing the office, Hon. Aisha Dikko should
have asked whether the governor’s right was violated or denied by applying the
principle of ubi jus ibi remedium (where there is a right, there is a remedy). The answer from these commentators/critics,
both lawyers and non-lawyers would have been none. Even if he has any right of invitation, it is
revocable or limited like any other legal or equitable right.
It is also on record that, contrary to the principle of fairness,
protection/inclusion of minorities and reflection of equitable political
balance, his second term election deliberately ensured muslim-muslim ticket
removing existing inclusive option of muslim-christain or vice-versa. This
arrangement lost sense of belonging due to the Kaduna minorities.
Obviously many can see that there are sensitive issues at stake with victims of the recent crisis still licking
their wounds. Is this the proper time
for the governor to mount the podium on the platform of the NBA after he has been
Channels, Youtube, social media and other electronic and print media stating
his own case and defence? Who is holding the briefs of the victims and
minorities? In my candid opinion, with all these being fresh in our minds it would
amount to complacency and insensitivity to add Mall El-Rufai as 2020 conference
speaker, in a group known as vanguards of human right for citizens and
minorities. This is indefensible and odd for NBA to handle.This, indeed is a
difficult moment for the NBA, especially the outgoing and incoming leadership.
Members should employ sound reason in handling these issues without allowing
sentiments to cloud our decisions because what we have is today, we cannot dictate
what the next day can come up with.
Let me now end this discourse with Edmund Burke, an English political philosophy
who said: ‘All it takes for evil to triumph is for men of goodwill to remain
silent in the times of moral crisis’.
Iyke Ozemena Esq
Corporate Attorney/Consultant IKECHUKWU O. ODOEMELAM & CO
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