By Abdulah Olawale
A former national secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association, Deacon Dele Adesina, SAN has condemned the alleged attack on some female lawyers by the Enugu command of the Nigeria police, describing the act as worrisome.
In a statement in Lagos, Adesina who is a leading contestant to the office of the national president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), said the alleged invasion of the office of the Women Aid Collective, WACOL, by the police where it allegedly brutalised and assaulted two of its female lawyers is “shocking and worrisome, which clearly depicts impunity and abuse of power” by the police in Enugu command.
He said: “To learn that Ibangah Goodness Esq., one of our colleagues, was beaten to coma by the same Police officers who are charged to protect every Nigerian citizen is an affront to the rule of law and should hurt the senses of all well meaning Nigerians.”
Adesina submitted that the unlawful acts of police brutality and assault on lawyers is one too many, while requesting that the Nigerian Bar Association must continually take frantic steps to end such impunity.
He added, “I commend the Nigerian Bar Association President, Mr. Paul Usoro, SAN and other members of the Nigerian Bar Association who have called for an investigation and resolution of the incident.
“I also condemn the actions of the Police officers who undertook this dastardly act.”
