LATEST: NBA’s General Secretary, Mrs Joy Oduah Suspended

LATEST: NBA’s General Secretary, Mrs Joy Oduah Suspended

by Victor Ndubuisi
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In advance of the NBA-pre-Conference NEC’s meeting, which is slated to take place on Sunday, August 21, 2022, Mrs. Joyce Oduah, the association’s general secretary, has been suspended from her position with immediate effect on grounds of egregious misconduct.

This information was made public on Monday by Rapulu Nduka, the NBA’s publicity secretary, in the resolution adopted at the National Executive Committee’s emergency meeting.

This comes after a significant disagreement concerning the proposed Constitutional Amendment between Olumide Akpata, the departing NBA President, and Oduah.

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On August 14, the NBA National Officers sent an internal memo to Akpata in which they specifically mentioned Mrs. Joyce Oduah, the Association’s general secretary, who “has from the very beginning of this administration constituted a clog in the smooth administration of the Association by various acts of dereliction of duty, disobedience to lawful orders, misconducting herself and being involved in acts and behaviors which are likely to, and have in fact, brought the Association into disrepute.

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The national officers said in the memo that Oduah lacked the temperament needed of the General Secretary in managing the secretariat employees and was unable to carry out her duties with diligence.

According to the Officers’ memo, in the course of the current administration, they had course to recognise some very critical imperatives that needed to be constitutionally institutionalized to sustain the growth and progress of the association.

But it added that in respect of several meetings of the National Executive Committee, the General Secretary, who attended the meetings and noted the deliberations, sent out different information to members, particularly with regards to the proposed constitutional amendment of the NBA, on August 12.

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The initial proposed amendment include: “Such critical objects were the establishment of a stabilization fund, the backbone to the implementation and sustainability of the access to finance scheme introduced by this administration; review of the disciplinary process of legal practitioners (most members will note that the disciplinary process has collapsed); the recurrent issue of whether administrations in branches should be truncated to enable uniform conduct of elections in June of an election years regardless of the time of assumption of the administration (Ikeja case as a reference herein); retrospective interpretation of Article 6(3) of the uniform Bye Laws for Branches; limitation of qualification and eligibility to contest for membership of the General Council of the Bar, because of the increasing external threats; increment of remittances to the branches from 10% to 20% and sundry issues that militate against a better delivery of good governance and inclusiveness in the affairs of the Association by members.”

In a resolution signed on Monday by NBA First Vice President, John Aikpokpo-Martins and other Committee members, the Assistant General Secretary, Ms. Uchenna Nwadialo, shall immediately act as the General Secretary, adding that the urgent action is geared towards forestalling a crisis in the NBA.

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Moreso, the NBA President, had already issued an email to members asking them to ignore the letter (Withdrawal of Notice of Proposed Amendments To The Constitution of the Nigerian Bar Association 2015 amended in 2021) issued by the General Secretary insisting that it was not approved by him or any other National Officers.

 

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