INEC
REC Advocates Tough Sanctions For Quack Lawyers
Nigerian Bar Association, has been urged to step up
monitoring and fight against the menace of quack lawyers.
The call was made by the Independent National Electoral
Commission, Resident Electoral Commissioner for Osun, Dr Mutiu Agboke.
Agboke made the call as a guest speaker at the Chrisland
University, Abeokuta, College of Law dinner.
To deal with the prevalence of fake lawyers, Agboke said,
The NBA must step up its monitoring activities like never before. It must spare
no effort to bring them to book because fake lawyers are like quack surgeons.
Osun INEC boss also stated that anyone desirous of making
success out of the law profession must be ready to be studious and added that
lawyers were not just referred to as learned members of the public for the fun
of it.
Speaking on the theme, Pathway to a Successful Legal
Career, Agboke told the students that achieving success in the law profession
is anchored on readiness and ability to study and shun other forms of
distractions.
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