Respect court order, NBA tells National Assembly

NIGERIAN Bar Association (NBA) has commended the leaderships of both houses of the National Assembly for the sense of purpose and responsibility exhibited in
their respective welcome addresses to their members.
  It particularly commended the maturity and dexterity exhibited by the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Waziri Aminu Tambuwal, (CFR), in dousing the unnecessary disorder caused by what the speaker sternly referred to, as an expensive “new year joke”, and an attempt in surreptitiously disregarding a valid and subsisting order of court, which says that status quo be maintained with regard to the leadership positions of the House of Representatives, pending the hearing and determination of the pending motion on notice.
  A statement issued and made available to the media by its president and spokesperson, Okey Wali (SAN) reads: “We are concerned about the language of some honourable members of the House at a press conference with a member of the House (a lawyer) threatening that the order of court would be obeyed up and until the next court date in February, when according to him, the court must determine the whole matter. We have found this rather very impudent.
  “We are alarmed at such a statement from a member of the Bar to a court. We want to believe that that was a slip that would never be repeated, because the NBA will not hesitate to take disciplinary actions against its members, in or out of government, whose actions or utterances are considered disrespectful to a court of law.
  “The Bar must at all times protect the integrity and dignity of the courts. Whoever is dissatisfied with a court order, has a responsible option of bringing another application to have the order under reference set aside by the same court or go to the Court of Appeal.
  It continued: “Politics must give way to the serious business of law making in the hallowed chambers of the National Assembly, which is a matter of responsibility, the legislature being the hallmark of any democracy.
We therefore seize this opportunity to call on the attention of all the distinguished senators and house Members to the Justice sector bills in the National Assembly, such as: the Legal Practitioners Act Amendment Bill; Administration of Criminal Justice
Bill; Prisons & Police Bills and other important Bills like the Petroleum Industry Bill, etc.
“This is our expectation, and this is what we believe is the expectation of Nigerians”.

















REF:  http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php/features/law/145169-nba-asks-national-assembly-to-respect-court-orders