Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to “urgently investigate the conduct of lawyers to the Senate President Bukola Saraki, for walking out on the Code of Conduct Tribunal on Thursday after the tribunal refused their application for stay of proceedings in the asset falsification trial against the Senate President.”

The organisation said that “It is the role of Sakari’s lawyers to serve their client’s best interests but in doing so they should not act in a manner that would put the administration of justice and the society’s confidence in the judicial system and the fight against corruption at risk.”

In a statement today signed by SERAP executive director Adetokunbo Mumuni the organisation said that, “Walking out on the Code of Conduct Tribunal for simply and correctly applying section 305(e) of the newly enacted Administration of Criminal Justice Act is disrespectful. It offends the basic rule that lawyers should act with integrity and professionalism, maintaining his or her overarching responsibility to ensure civil conduct.”

“SERAP believes that a lawyer’s duty to the court is a fundamental obligation that defines a lawyer’s role within the adversarial system. Lawyers should at all times act to promote the rule of law and the public’s confidence in the administration of justice and not to be seen to undermine it or facilitate an infringement of the law.”

“As we have seen many times, without the rule of law, the rule of the jungle takes hold and the economically and socially vulnerable fall victim to the strong and nobody is safe. The rule of law also creates a disincentive for would-be corrupt officials.”

“Senior lawyers especially have a responsibility to act as the guardians of the rule of law by contributing to a strong judicial and legal system which is crucial to a well-functioning democracy and which in turn is necessary to satisfactorily prevent and combat years of official corruption in the country.”

“If at all Saraki’s lawyers are dissatisfied with the ruling of the Tribunal there are laid down processes that they should have followed to demonstrate their role as officers in the temple of justice rather than granting media interviews and literally abusing the Tribunal. We urge the NBA to urgently investigate what exactly happened and to punish any professional misconduct that may have occurred.”

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Hmmmm

Lol..... If you cough probe
.......... If you shit for your house probe
.......... If you dance shakiti Bobo probe
.......... If you walk out of person probe


But

if you Loot............ you're Blessed
If you support evil you're Blessed
If you support discrimination You're Blessed


If you Die better for you

The era of endless and fruitless probe is here........all probe no tangible outcome

Hope i dont get probed for belonging to the wailing family

Great...it smacks of respect for the judiciary and courts.

Just imagine what the Law School is teaching their students. This is the height of impunity and disregard for constituted authority.

I am sure NBA would sanction them.

guess they don't intend entering there again, because walking out means we give up. hence do what u like

Nothing to probe there if you ask me. NBA should just go ahead and sanction those rascals that call themselves lawyers. They are a disgrace to the legal profession. The law court is not the National assembly where you stage a walk out at will.

They should be stripped of their inSANe title.
Saraki has already been told to go look for another Lawyers. Those Lawyers can no longer enter that Court. Meanwhile, Saraki is just using all these to delay proceedings.

Its a slap on the judiciary which the lawyers tends to serve. A walkout on a judge is an error on their path.

Everything must not go in their clients way, the most they could have done is to follow the disciplinary procedures if they have no confidence in the judge. Am very sure walk-out isn't part of the disciplinary measures.

A slap on the king's servant is like a slap on the king himself.

all we would hear is probe!

It is indeed a disservice to judicial independence. And Saraki is supposed to be the chief lawmaker of the country.
What a joke! His lawyers should be punished

Saraki has become too ambitious for my liking......Buhari has dragged our reverend judiciary to the mud

If he's purnishd PDP will soon shout witch hunt and military