Following the current poor state of Nigeria’s economy, the Speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Hon. Onofiok Luke has charged lawyers and activists to rise up and speak out
Addressing members of the Young Lawyers Forum of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, in Uyo, the state capital, the Speaker urged lawyers and activists to speak out against the bad governance and poor leadership.
Luke urged the young lawyers to always stand for what is right no matter what interests are at stake.
“We have a great challenge facing us today as the leaders of this country for tomorrow. In the last eight years when things were wrong, we had senior lawyers who would hit the streets shouting and making demands in the name of human rights activists.
“Yet the same things which happened in the last couple of years are happening today, and even taking worrisome dimensions, but there seems to be a conspiracy of silence.
“What we find today is that people become activists when political situations don’t favour them. But when they are on the side which favours them, they feign ignorance of harsh realities.
“I want to thank our seniors, learned lawyers, who still stand to condemn things which are wrong, not minding political affiliations. This is why, till tomorrow, we respect the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi,” he said.
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