{"id":58395,"date":"2024-12-24T09:25:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T09:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58395"},"modified":"2024-12-24T09:25:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T09:25:24","slug":"fct-land-dealer-urges-nba-to-address-lawyers-professional-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/24\/fct-land-dealer-urges-nba-to-address-lawyers-professional-misconduct\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Land Dealer Urges NBA to Address Lawyers\u2019 Professional Misconduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Land Dealer, Alhaji Ibrahim Mohammed Kamba, has called on the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), to address professional misconduct among lawyers, particularly in handling client cases.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists in Abuja, Kamba, who is also the Wazirin Hausawa Abuja, alleged that some lawyers handling his land cases colluded with others to defraud him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won several land cases in court, but my lawyers refused to inform me, taking advantage of my lack of legal knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They kept demanding appearance fees, falsely claiming judgments were pending,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kamba urged the NBA to monitor and sanction unethical practices by legal practitioners.<\/p>\n<p>He also appealed to judges, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) to intensify efforts against land fraudsters.<\/p>\n<p>He called on judges to handle land disputes with integrity and professionalism, avoiding collusion with corrupt lawyers and agents.<\/p>\n<p>He further advised Nigerians to verify land transactions with the FCT Land Department to avoid falling victim to fraudulent agents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the judiciary and lawyers shun corruption, the nation will achieve significant progress,\u201d Kamba emphasized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu A Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Land Dealer, Alhaji Ibrahim Mohammed Kamba, has called on the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), to address professional misconduct among lawyers, particularly in handling client cases. Speaking to journalists in Abuja, Kamba, who is also the Wazirin Hausawa Abuja, alleged that some lawyers handling his land cases colluded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58397,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58395\/revisions\/58397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}