AKPATA's LETTER TO OLANIPEKUN, SAN: BODY OF BENCHERS (BOB) SHOULD KNOW YOUNG LAWYERS ARE WATCHING ~Meti M. Ukpeh, Esq., fumes
FLASHBACK: AKPATA's LETTER TO OLANIPEKUN, SAN: BODY OF BENCHERS (BOB) SHOULD KNOW YOUNG LAWYERS ARE WATCHING ~Meti M. Ukpeh, Esq., fumes May I start this way: Maximum truth has been told in Bars with a glass of whisky in hand & Maximum lies have been told in courts with holy book in hand In soothe, it is uncanny and apparently haggard, that the media lately, has ululatingly dragged out the nobility of our legal profession to public harangue owing to the letter of the NBA President to the chairman of the BOB, Chief Whole Olanipekun, SAN, to honourably excuse himself from the chairmanship of the revered BoB, citing his involvement in unethical conduct. The sanity and sanctity of our profession is evidently challenged, petrified, and threatened by this apocalyptic and incongruous display of carte blanche, hence the age-long cordial relationship of the BOB and the NBA is left crumbling and dangling with near-hopeless hope of redemption. Just a couple of days ago, over four thous...