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Okutepa, SAN: NBA Constitution Recognises Zoning and Fora. Members Cannot Disparage What the Law Establishes

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“Have we read NBA constitution and the rights donated to Fora in NBA constitution.


First there is no democracy in NBA. What we have been having are not democractic at all.


To have the freedom we want let the zoning of offices be abolish from NBA constitution.
Let fora too be abolish from NBA constitution.Let it be the rights of all lawyers to aspire to lead the bar. Let us abolish all forms of fora in NBA constitution.


But as long as we retain zoning and recognising fora in NBA constitution and lawyers subscribed to such fora, then nobody should disparage the fora in the name of collective decisions of all lawyers and condenm the decision of the alleged few that are members of the fora who took decision and communicated that decision.

As long as we retain the rights of the Fora in NBA constitution, it will be unreasonable to think that any fora that feels short changed has lost the right to seek for judicial remedies. NBA constitution was not drafted for decoration.
It is binding on all of us. That is my honest view.”
—J.S.Okutepa, SAN