Bolaji Owasanoye, chairman of the Independent Corrupt
Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), and Anthony Ojukwu,
executive secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), are among
137 candidates shortlisted for the rank of senior advocate of Nigeria.
In a statement on Wednesday, Hajo Sarki, secretary of the
legal practitioners’ privileges committee, said the shortlisted candidates were
“graded under the category system of the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges
Committee Guidelines, 2018”.
He said the candidates are those who qualified after the
advocate filtration stage and the academic pre-qualification exercise.
While 116 are practising lawyers, the other 21 are academic applicants.
Sarki said the public is at liberty to comment on the
integrity, reputation and competence of the candidates.
“However, any complaint(s) presented to the legal
practitioners’ privileges committee must be accompanied with a verifying
affidavit deposed to before a court of record in Nigeria,” he said.
“In relation to paragraph 12(2) of the Legal Practitioners’
Privileges Committee Guidelines, 2018, twenty (20) copies of such comments must
reach the LPPC office “not later than 4pm on Tuesday, October 13, 2020.”
Some other lawyers who made the list are Peter Mrakpo,
attorney-general of Delta state; Afam Osigwe, former national secretary of the
Nigerian Bar Association (NBA); Remi Olatubora, former attorney-general of Ondo
state; Oyelowo Oyewo, Oyo state attorney-general and commissioner for justice;
Babatunde Ogala, a former lawmaker.
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