Loading .... as varsity don flays politicians over nation’s worsening insecurity, poverty
By IBE NWACHUKWU
The Chief Judge of Anambra state, Justice Onochie Anyachebelu has expressed concern over the incessant attacks on some judicial officers in the country, by the insurgents in the course of performing their legal practices.
His views co-incided with that of a university don, Prof. Osita Nnamani Ogbu who took a swipe at the nation’s politicians for being the brain behind the current cause of degenerating insecurity and extreme poverty situations in the country.
Anyachebelu while declaring open a four-day activities marking this year’s 2020 Law Week/Bar Dinner organized by the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Aguata branch (the Frontline Bar), regretted that the obvious collapse of institutions in the country has made the nation’s security architecture so porous that security of lives and properties of average Nigerians are no longer guaranteed.
He however admonished lawyers in the country to live up to the ethics of their profession without fear or favour by always being in the vanguard of defence of rights of Nigerian citizens and not citizens alike, particularly the commoners in the street.
In his speech, chairman of the occasion, Chief Ikenna Egbuna (SAN), urged lawyers not to be disillusioned by obvious collapse of institutions, adding that this ugly development is often aggravated by selfish policies and ideas being pursued by politicians.
The guest lecturer, Prof. Ogbu who is also the Dean of Faculty of Law, Enugu State University of Technology, ESUT, condemned the current policy of the Federal government as well as some state governments on Amnesty Programmes on people caught engaging on Terrorism, criminalities, violence, banditries, among other, pointing out that such programmes were capable of encourages insecurity in the country.
Chairman of Aguata NBA, Prof. Chima Josephat Ubanyionwu and chairman of the 2020 Law Week/Dinner committee, Chief Sylvester Oluoba KSM, as well as immediate past chairman of the branch, Clifford Iloegbune Okoye, decried the spate of insecurity in the country.
