Disgraced former Attorney General of the Federation under the Yar’Adua regime Mr. Michael Aondoakaa, who gained national notoriety during his tenure as the nation’s No 1 law breaker, has been barred from using the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN).
The dishonorable former minister gained national notoriety and infamy when he turned the constitution and the laws of the land on their head in his campaign to protect his paymasters who were being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The decision to sack the notorious former minister from the body of SAN was taken by the legal privileges committee of the Nigerian Bar Association.
Mr. Sunday Olorundahunsi, Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court of Nigeria told reporters that the committee took the decision to sack the notorious Mr. Aondoakaa due to a number of allegations against him, including using his position as AGF to “emasculate the anti-corruption institutions.” He said the committee reviewed Mr. Aondoakaa’s response to a petition written against him by the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR). He accused the former minister of “lying and deception” to protect former Delta State governor Mr. James Ibori and his associates, who were being prosecuted for corruption.
“...the committee, after due consideration of the said response, has decided in its wisdom, to suspend him[Aondoakaa] from the use of the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria and all other privileges attached to that rank, pending the outcome of the investigation by the sub-committee set up by the legal practitioners privileges committee,” Mr. Olorundahunsi said.
According to him, the petition accused the disgraced former minister of guilty of “deliberate mis-interpretation, mis-application, and incompetence.” The petition also said Mr. Aondoakaa also showed “an inadequate knowledge of the law.” Recently, the disgraced minister had been barred by a Calabar High Court from holding any public office in future, while ruling on a lawsuit that accused Mr. Aondoakaa of derailing the rule of the law during his tenure. Also the despised former minister has recently been banned from entering the United States of America.
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The dishonorable former minister gained national notoriety and infamy when he turned the constitution and the laws of the land on their head in his campaign to protect his paymasters who were being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The decision to sack the notorious former minister from the body of SAN was taken by the legal privileges committee of the Nigerian Bar Association.
Mr. Sunday Olorundahunsi, Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court of Nigeria told reporters that the committee took the decision to sack the notorious Mr. Aondoakaa due to a number of allegations against him, including using his position as AGF to “emasculate the anti-corruption institutions.” He said the committee reviewed Mr. Aondoakaa’s response to a petition written against him by the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR). He accused the former minister of “lying and deception” to protect former Delta State governor Mr. James Ibori and his associates, who were being prosecuted for corruption.
“...the committee, after due consideration of the said response, has decided in its wisdom, to suspend him[Aondoakaa] from the use of the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria and all other privileges attached to that rank, pending the outcome of the investigation by the sub-committee set up by the legal practitioners privileges committee,” Mr. Olorundahunsi said.
According to him, the petition accused the disgraced former minister of guilty of “deliberate mis-interpretation, mis-application, and incompetence.” The petition also said Mr. Aondoakaa also showed “an inadequate knowledge of the law.” Recently, the disgraced minister had been barred by a Calabar High Court from holding any public office in future, while ruling on a lawsuit that accused Mr. Aondoakaa of derailing the rule of the law during his tenure. Also the despised former minister has recently been banned from entering the United States of America.
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