Immediate Past Chairman NBA, Akure refunds money transferred to his account by National Secretariat.
Full text of the letter dated 29th of August 2022, written to the The President, Nigerian Bar Association by Rotimi Olorunfemi Esq, the Immediate Past Chairman NBA, Akure
29th August, 2022
The President,
Nigerian Bar Association,
National Secretariat,
Plot 1101, Muhammadu Buhari Way,
Central Business District
Abuja, FCT
Mr. President,
REFUND OF THE SUM OF N100,000.00K TRANSFERRED TO MY
ACCOUNT BY THE NATIONAL SECRETARIAT.
Permit me sir, to use this medium to congratulate you on your recent assumption of
office as the President of our noble association, the Nigerian Bar Association, the
foremost, the biggest and the noblest of all professional associations not only in
Nigeria but in Africa.
Mr President, I woke on Sunday 28th day of August, 2022 to receive an alert of the
sum of N100,000.00k (One Hundred Thousand Naira only) from the Nigerian Bar
Association which was described in the narration as “accommodation”.
Sir, I am sure this payment to my account was in fulfilment of the promise of the
immediate past President, Mr Olumide Akpata, to reimburse Chairmen and
Secretaries of Branches for accommodation expenses incurred during the just
concluded AGC.
Initially, I had no objection to this gesture as it is customary of the National body to
provide hotel accommodation for Branch Chairmen and Secretaries during NEC
meetings, so I forwarded my account details as requested and in anticipation of
receiving this money.
However, in view of the recent happenings at the Bar starting with the kill-the-chickenand-break-the-egg handling of the issue involving our revered Chief Wole Olanipekun,
SAN’s Law Firm, the purported illegal suspension of the immediate Past General
Secretary of the association, Mrs Joyce Oduah, which culminated in a Federal High
Court lampooning the National Executive Council (of which I was a member until
last week when my tenure expired as Chairman, Akure Branch) for the shoddy
manner it handled the matter and the very ugly incident during the recently
concluded AGC which portrayed our very noble association in very bad light before the whole world due largely to the very poor and selfish planning by the nepotically
selected Technical Committee on Conference Planning, TCCP, of this year
Conference, I have decided that I cannot in good conscience keep and/or expend
this money for my personal benefit.
Aside the above, I have been attending Bar Conferences since year 2002, one year
after I was called to the Bar and I have self-funded myself to attend conferences all
these years and the 2022 Bar Conference should not be an exception just because of
my privileged position as a Branch Chairman.
It is on the above premises, that I therefore humbly request Mr. President to instruct
the National Treasurer to kindly forward the Association’s account details to me
with a view to refunding the money quickly to the Association’s coffers. IN
THE ALTERNATIVE if I have Mr President’s approval I can pay the money into
my Branch account for the benefit of my Branch and I will forward the teller to the
National Secretariat.
If however I do not receive any response from the national body as herein requested
within the next 14 working days of the receipt of this letter by you sir, I shall draw a
Bank Draft in this sum and send same to the President via this same medium.
While I thank and appreciate the immediate past administration led by Mr Olumide
Akpata, who I hold and continue to hold in very high esteem, for this harmless gesture
of reimbursing my accommodation expenses during the AGC, my conscience will
not know rest if I accept the payment.
I once again congratulate the President and members of the new National Executive
Committee and wish you all a successful tenure of office.
Thank you.
Yours very sincerely,
Rotimi Olorunfemi Esq.
Immediate Past Chairman NBA, Akure.
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