Nigeria: Warri NBA Withdraws Legal Service to Kidnap Suspects

22 December 2012

Warri — THE Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Warri, Delta State has directed lawyers not to offer legal representation to any person(s) arrested and charged with the offence of kidnapping in the state.

NBA's tough resolution came on the heels of the recent arrest and arraignment in court of a Warri-based lawyer and activist, Mr. Casely Omon-Irabor by the police for allegedly offering N700,000 bribe to a police officer, Inspector Samuel Imana, to induce him to release a kidnap suspect, Vincent Akpokona.

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