Thread by @ChidiOdinkalu

#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.

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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.