Agenda for new Nigerian Bar Association

An association of lawyers is bound to be influential considering how important law and lawyers are to the functioning of a modern state. But the truth is that in present times, the association of lawyers in Nigeria is nowhere near influential in the things that matter for the development and survival of the Nigerian state.

The first agenda the new NBA leadership should pursue is the restoration of rule of law in Nigeria. This sounds silly if you consider that we proudly claim we are a democracy. But it is not that silly. The Nigerian state today has lost critical components of a rule of law state. There are many events that show we are already a lapsed rule of law state even before we really entered it. We may not have slid into authoritarian state, but we are fast exiting the rule of law state.

That’s the first challenge of the new bar: to regain the confidence of the Nigerian people that the NBA can become the arrowhead of a new struggle to consolidate democracy based on the rule of law in its manifold articulations. This challenge becomes more urgent in the context of growing poverty and instability of the Nigerian society. Rule of law includes social and economic rights.

Another challenge that flows from the rule of law challenge is to how to create a policy environment that enables sustainable economic development and political stability that foster economic and political freedoms for Nigerians. Nigeria is a failing state in every dispassionate consideration of the features of state failure. Before COVID-19, the Nigerian economy was already going downhill on account of the weak policymaking and poor management.

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