NBA-SPIDEL Announces Speakers For Feb. 28 Town Hall Meeting

The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA-SPIDEL) has confirmed that Hon. Justice Eko Ejembi of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), human rights lawyer, will be speaking at its town hall meeting holding 28 February, 2022 at Marriot Hotel, Ikeja GRA in Lagos. While Ejembi will chair the event, Falana will be the lead speaker.

The town hall meeting, themed “Justiciability of Chapter 2 of the 1999 Constitution – the need for the Nigerian Judicial System to be more proactive”, is being organised by the NBA-SPIDEL. Olumide Akpata, NBA president, will be the Chief Host of the event while Dr. Monday Ubani, NBA-SPIDEL chairman, will be the host.

NBA-SPIDEL announced that there will be two plenary sessions, with discussants that include Hon. Luke Eniofiok, chairman, House Committee on Judiciary, Justice Kazeem Alogba, Chief Judge of Lagos State, Onuoha Ogwe, Chief Judge of Abia State, Yemi Adamolekun, Executive Director, Enough is Enough (EiE), and Kolawole Oluwadare, Deputy Director, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP).

Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed is also expected as the lead speaker in the second plenary that will have discussants that include Moyosore Onigbanjo, Lagos State Attorney General & Commissioner for Justice, Olawale Fapohunda, Ekiti State Attorney General & Commissioner for Justice, among others.

The NBA-SPIDEL Chairman said in a statement that the aim of the town hall meeting is to arouse the consciousness of the various institutions that are under the mandate to provide socio-economic rights to Nigerians.

He said the town hall meeting will specifically seek to bring to the awareness of the Nigerian judiciary the abiding responsibility it owes the citizens of Nigeria to interpret the 1999 constitution to give life to the spirit and letter behind it.

The town hall meeting will gather judicial officers, political actors, legislators, lawyers and civil society leaders to ruminate over the very important topic of providing socio-economic rights to Nigerians which, Dr. Ubani said, has the capacity to redefine the art of governance in the country. He said a communique will be issued at the end of the town hall meeting.

The town hall meeting, which will take a hybrid form, will have not more than 200 persons attending physically while the rest will link up online. As such, Dr, Ubani urged prospective attendees, both online and physical, to get registered on time with the link below https://tinyurl.com/nbaspidelth2022