Yakubu Maikyau, SAN, the newly elected President of the Nigerian Bar Association, claimed that traumatised and pauperized Nigerians’ psyches were the result of terrorization and trauma.
Maikyau stated that lawyers must speak out against terror and hardship in the country at his inaugural address as President of the NBA.
Let me emphasise this argument in the following way: “Our current realities have terrorised, traumatised, and pauperized Nigeria and Nigerians,” said Maikyau. These and other issues, together with others, have severely undermined the dignity of Nigerians’ lives.
“What is left of this country, which cannot be emasculated in my humble view, is the voice of the legal profession; a voice that derives its life and strength from the person of justice and which cannot be caged or killed.
“This voice must speak against the terror in the land and the hardship that has taken over the lives of our people. This is the charge that my administration undertakes to spearhead.”
