President Buhari has urged lawyers to support his administration's war against corruption.
President Buhari has urged Nigerian lawyers not to sacrifice their
integrity and that of the legal system in a bid to cover misdeeds of
clients, no matter how lucrative the brief.
Muhammadu Buhari made the call at the opening of the 55th Annual
General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), at the
International Conference Centre, Abuja.
President Buhari called on the lawyers to support his
administration’s war against corruption and help the country to return
to the path of rectitude by making courts functional and effective
again.
"I am convinced that law, law-makers, lawyers, law courts and
the law enforcement agencies have pivotal responsibilities to discharge,
if the change we seek is ever to materialise. This administration has
taken on the challenge of improving security, fighting corruption and
revamping the economy, among many others. The fight against corruption
is in reality a struggle for the restoration of law and order."
"Corruption and impunity become widespread when disrespect for
law is allowed to thrive in society. Disrespect for law also thrives
when people get away with all sorts of shady deals and the court system
is somehow unable to check them. Ability to manipulate and frustrate the
legal system is the crowning glory of the corrupt and, as may be
expected, this has left many legal practitioners and law courts tainted
in an ugly way."
He stressed the need to make the nation’s courts functional and effective again.
"This means that we must have lawyers who take the ethics of
the profession very seriously; lawyers who will not frustrate the course
of justice, even though they defend their clients with all legitimate
means and resources."
According to him, Nigeria needs ethical lawyers who always keep the
end of justice in mind and will never sacrifice the integrity of the
legal system to cover the misdeeds of their clients, no matter how
lucrative the brief may be.
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