Greatway Legal Services

30/08/2023

NBA AGC 2023

28/10/2021

31/10/2020

* : NBA Anambra condemns wanton Destruction of Lives and Properties, offers legal assistance*

*_"We urge our people to take advantage of the Complaint Desks set up across our 8 (eight) branches in the State to articulate and present their respective petitions to the ANAMBRA STATE PANEL OF INQUIRY ON without further delay"_*

https://www.barristerNG.com/endsars-nba-anambra-condemns-wanton-destruction-of-lives-and-properties-offers-pro-bono-services/

19/10/2020

* : All The 8 NBA Branches In Anambra State Endorse Protest Against Police Brutality, Set Up Complaint Desks*

_"We note with particular admiration the resoluteness, dexterity, excellent coordination and peaceful manner in which our protesting youths have so far conducted themselves despite several pockets of orchestrated provocations from agents of State. Be rest assured that we the Anambra Bar have your back in this struggle to restore the dignity of our citizens and respect for sanctity of human life." the statement reads_

The eight (8) branches of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Anambra State have endorsed the ongoing protest against police brutality and disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)

11/08/2020

*On Involvement of Civil Servants in Bail of Accused Persons In Criminal Cases.*

_as a court, we must be ready and sensitive enough not to allow or do anything that will run foul of the law. The issue of involving civil servants... in bail of persons accused of criminal offences has never been the practice in Nigeria. It was an oversight on our part to allow it. Our civil and public service rules do not have any room for it.”_
▪️Per Adah, JCA, in *DASUKI v. DIRECTOR-GENERAL, SSS (2020) 10 NWLR (Pt. 1731) 153*

_For Magistrates & Judges asking for Civil Servants as sureties._

01/03/2019

Court of Appeal to Rivers State APC

“The hundreds of millions of naira you are using to sponsor “academic litigations” could have served you better if you invested it in Rivers youths to better their lives. It’s better to spend your money that way than to fritter it away in the hope that it can enable you to reap where you didn’t sow. It’s even against the word of God to make an attempt to reap from where you didn’t sow. This court will never lend its powers to you to achieve that ungodly desire”.

“You are a product of illegality. Delegates voided twice by a competent court of law, delegates who emerged from nullified congresses purportedly voted for you as inchoate Governorship candidate of Rivers APC. How could those delegates have placed something on nothing and you expected it to stand?”

“Your case is worse. You stand on the faulty foundation foisted by those who habitually attack the courts and flagrantly disobey court orders as if this blessed country is their Banana Republic. It is not so, and cannot be! This country is governed by laws. This court cannot bless those who abhor the court and those who have contempt for the judiciary”

“We totally condemn and resist your frail attempt to arm-twist this court into resurrecting Lazarus that was buried two thousand years ago when you know that Jesus Christ is no longer on earth. How do you think we can help you to pluck an empty coconut?

“ Stop attempting to hit our heads against our learned Senior brothers at the Supreme Court who correctly interred the remains of the indirect primaries group in Rivers APC. What is dead is dead and what has been buried has been buried. We can’t sit here and allow you to institute judicial chaos in our ranks as priests in the temple of justice”.

“Rein in your desperation now and have a deserved rest. Your appeal fails and is hereby struck out for being a mere academic exercise. Only universities accommodate academic exercise. Courts of law don’t do it”

27/09/2018

For those overzealous MDAs who go about harassing innocent citizens and businesses with outrageous fines and penalties, please hear this;

"Penalties or fines are imposed as punishment for an offence or violation of the law. The power as well as competence to impose penalties and fines belongs to the courts. Awarding a fine is a judicial act and it is the sole prerogative of a court of law under Section 6 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended). No other organizations or bodies can usurp that power. Any law that confers on anybody other than the courts the power to award fine is unconstitutional...."

See;

National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) V. Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (EXXONMOBIL) (2018) 13 NWLR (Part 1636) 334 @ 340 paras. D-E.

23/04/2018

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