Outgoing President of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olumide Akpata has said that any lawyer found complicit in vandalisation of conference booths, theft of phones, and assault on officials will be prosecuted.
Lifestyle Nigeria reports that some aggrieved lawyers who did not get their conference materials on time had stormed the collection centre and looted the booth.
Akpata, while speaking on Thursday during the Annual General Meeting of the NBA holding at the Eko Atlantic City, Lagos, explained the circumstances that led to the delayed distribution. According to him, the delay was in a bid to give lawyers the best conference experience.
He said: “No one said we will not encounter difficulties in life but the hall mark is how quickly do we resolve such difficulties.
“I hereby assured the generality of Nigerian legal practitioners that any lawyer found complicit in vandalisation of conference booths, theft of phones, assault on officials will be prosecuted.”