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A league of lawyers have expressed interest in filing a petition seeking to strip the Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami of the title of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) following a list of accusations.
Registered by a lawyer, Izu Aniagu, the petition on change.org as at 5:10 am Monday, had received 582 signatures.
Malami was accused of usurpation of office, his general dereliction of duty, unilaterally deleted the provisions of the Rules of Professional Conduct, RPC, which provides for stamp and seal as well as bar practice fee for government lawyers, amongst others.
According to Izu, the AGF had no such power.
Malami was conferred with the SAN rank in 2008, 16 years after he was called to the Bar.
He courted controversy last week when he purportedly amended the RPC for Legal Practitioners 2007, removing the requirement for the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, stamp and seal on court processes.
The gazette also seemingly abolished the requirement of payment of annual practice fees by government lawyers.
Membership of the NBA has been compulsory for all lawyers and the stamps and seals were sold at N4,000 for 72 pieces and were given upon payment of NBA dues.
Without the stamp, a lawyer could not submit any document or letter to the court and the sale of the stamp and seal was one of the major sources of NBA’s revenue.
Fatimah Oyesanmi
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