#Nigeria's Attorney-General & Minister of Justice, @MalamiSan, claims to have amended Rules of Professional Conduct (RPC) in the Legal Profession under powers conferred by s.12(4l) of Legal Practitioners Act. There're no such powers? We have a HAGF can't do basic due diligence.
The power to "prepare, and from time to time revise, a statement as to the kind of conduct which the Council considers to be infamous conduct in a professional respect" created in s.11(4) of the Legal Practitioners Act, belongs to the #BarCouncil not to the HAGF.
The #BarCouncil is a statutory body created by s.1 of the Legal Practitioners Act. It comprises 57 persons, made up of:
1. HAGF as president;
2. All state attorneys age metal
3. 20 reps of @NigBarAssoc.

No meeting of the #BarCouncil has bn called in order to amend the RPC
The purported amendment of the RPC by @MalamiSan is as dud as a bounced cheque because:

1. He claims to have acted under a section of the law that gives him no such powers;

2. Even if he acted under the right provision, he can't usurp the role of the #BarCouncil & he knows it!
The only way to go is to totally disregard & ignore this alleged "amendment" by @MalamiSan of the RPC. It does not exist & did not happen.

thenigerialawyer.com/purported-amen…
It seems clear that @MalamiSan decided to go rogue on this - as on other things as he has on disobedience of court orders - because he knows that he can't get his proposal through the #BarCouncil.

Few tragedies are as awful as an attorney-general with no regard for law.

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So, following the supposed #AtyapPeaceAccord, today, 11 Sept, 2020, suspected #ArmedHerders attacked Mañyi-Mashin village, in Zamandabo ward, Atyap Chiefdom, Zangon Kataf LGA in the latest instalment of #SouthernKadunaMassacre

They fled only after #OperationSafeHeaven responded
By then, the attackers had methodically set the settlement of Mañyi-Mashin on fire burning most of the structures & looting & carting away much of what they chose not to burn. They also killed 2 ppl:

Cecilia Ishaya, 62, widow & mother of 6;

& Iliya Sunday, 56, father of 8.
3 days earlier, on 8 Sept, another militia of #ArmedHerders reportedly attacked 3 Atyap youths from Atakmawei village, also in Zamandabo Ward.

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Around 02:00 hrs today, 6 Sept, 2020, #ArmedHerders reportedly attacked Buda in Kajuru LGA of Kaduna State, killing at least 3 persons in #SouthernKadunaMassacre:

1. Rev. Alubara Audu, 45, a father of with 5;
2. Adamu Tata, 40, father of 4; & 3. Ishaku Peter, 37, father of 5
In addition, the attackers abducted the following:

1. Sani Peter, 25; &
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From the neighboring community of Kemara Rimi, the attackers reportedly abducted the following:

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Nasir @elrufai has caused to be issued on his behalf a tissue of untruths, #halftruths & falsehoods concerning his brutal persecution of his critics as @GovKaduna. To help his memory, here is a litany of #bodybags of critics who have suffered at his hands

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They are asking for #FairHearing. What happened to #FairHearing when he:

1. evicted state civil servants from their Government quarters against a court order

2. demolished the house of my classmate, Inuwa Abdulkadir, #LifeBencher, against a court crder

#ElRufai2020Cancelled
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5. demolished the House of Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi against a court order.

#ElRufai2020Cancelled
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#ElRufai2020Cancelled
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A headline speaker for the Annual Conference of @NigBarAssoc #NBAAGC2020, is Kaduna State Governor, @elrufai

The Association's motto is #PromotingTheRuleOfLaw

So, pls, join us on a brief journey to discover why many lawyers are now asking @NigBarAssoc to #CancelElRufai2020 Image
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