By Nkereuwem Udofia Akpan
Someone wrote a book and you are reporting him to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) alleging that his actions constitute “professional misconduct” and that the author should be disbarred.
What the LPDC has done in legal terms is an Order striking out the petition as not only lacking in merit but also constituting a gross abuse of its processes.
Secondly, by so doing LPDC has now established a precedent that literally works by legal practitioners are protected as intellectual property, outside the realm of conventional legal practice, and, to that extent, cannot be classified as (or constitute) infamous conduct in a professional respect.
Put differently, writing a book cannot be”infamous conduct in a professional respect”
Sincerely Farotimi has used this book to win so much that he might have lost in the courts.
Whatever the eventual outcome of the hydra-headed claims in multiple venues against Dele Farotimi, what he has achieved so much already can never be undone.
From where I’m standing this is just the beginning of the many victories of Dele Farotimi in the course of these disputes with Aare Afe Babalola SAN and his illustrious Law firm
Chief Nkereuwem Udofia Akpan Constitutional Lawyer
Author and Human Rights Activist writes from Abuja
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