Past Secretary Young Lawyers Forum (YLF) Governing Council and Member, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) National Welfare Committee, Auta Nyada has congratulated the leadership and members of the Calabar Branch of the NBA, on its Bar Week.
In a statement made available to The Metro Lawyer (TML), he said:
“I warmly congratulate the Executive members led by Hon. Attah Ochinke and the leadership of the Bar week committee led by Mrs Nella Andem Rabana SAN, of the Calabar Branch of the NBA for putting up an event of this magnitude in such an unfavourable time.
I say so because, all over the Country today, the stark economic realities do not encourage such a venture to be undertaken.
Be that as it may, as Bar men and Women that we are, you have deemed it most appropriate to observe the age long and cherished tradition of the Bar by organizing this Bar week and to that extent, I say Congratulations.
I am further elated by the theme of this year’s Bar week, “We the People”, An agenda for National consensus; it could not have been discussed at any other time than now. This is because, regardless of our several years of co-existence as a nation, we the people are yet to harness our strength; we are yet to identify ourselves as one entity capable of speak as one people on one national ideology to project a common destiny for us and the generations to come.
I am satisfied that the theme which has obviously received rousing acceptability, would at the end of this exercise chart the way forward for national rebirth.
Finally and in quoting the renowned Chinua Achebe when we gather in the moonlit, it is not because of the moon, every man can see the moon from his own house, we come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.
In the same breath I dare say, it is good that we have gathered; let the brotherhood continue.
Congratulations once again!
Long live NBA Calabar Branch,
Long live NBA National, and
Long live Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
