New Administration Calls For Understanding From Lawyers.
The new legal year will soon commence. Some have opined that it will commence on the 30th of September, with the decoration of newly appointed Senior Advocates wearing Silk.
As the eve of a new legal year beacons, most lawyers who paid for Stamp & Seal for this dying legal year of 2024-2025, are yet to receive their Stamps & Seals despite promises, assurances by the YC Maikyau OON, SAN led 31st Executive Administration of the NBA.
In what observers have liken to Pilate washing his hands, Sabastine Anyia, the 32nd 1st Vice President of NBA, has taken to NBA/Lawyers friendly WhatsApp groups to appeal to lawyers, who are yet to receive their Stamp & Seal to, “plead with all of you to give our president little time to solve this nagging problem.”
The Uncut, Unedited Message reads;
ON NBA STAMP AND SEAL.
Distinguished colleagues, good morning. The new Excos led by our amiable leader, Mazi Afam Josiah Osigwe SAN is not ignorant of the complaint of our colleagues over the stamp and seal and the hardship it is causing our colleagues. Our president is working assiduously to solve this problem once and for all.
Gentlemen, our president is a thorough person. From the day he assumed office, he has been studying the various agreements entered by the previous administration over the said stamp and seal and consulting experts in the said departments with the view of giving our colleagues a better and cheaper option.
I can tell you for free that Mr President is on top of the situation.
He is committed in ensuring that the backlog of the stamp and seal is cleared. He is not a man of promises but a man of results. In no distant time, the results will be obvious for all lawyers to see. As a proactive leader, his mission is to put smiles on the faces of Nigerian lawyers.
I want to state here boldly that the issue of our colleagues that paid for stamp and seal not having them as at when due will not happen under this administration. This will be a regime like no other, just give us a little time.
Thanks for your patience.
•Sabastine Anyia,
NBA, First Vice President.
