LPPC Restores SAN Rank To Ogunba
The title of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) to Kunle Ogunba has been restored by the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee, nine months after the lawyer was stripped of the title.
The LPPC, in a September 20, 2018 letter, said the restoration of the title to Ogunba, was in view of the lawyer’s “letter of September 11, 2018, in which he presented to the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee attached documents in compliance to the conditions laid down in Paragraph 27 of Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee Guidelines 2018.”
“The committee, after a careful consideration of the letter and accompanying documents, found the character references to be valid and the applications for review granted.
“The committee hereby allows the restoration of the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria on your person and the privileges of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria,” the LPPC said in the letter signed by its Secretary and the Chief Registrar Of Supreme Court, Hadizatu Mustapha,
The body advised Ogunba to “conduct your case(s) in the best tradition of the legal profession, uphold the honour and dignity which the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria commands.”
The LPPC had, in a press release dated January 11, 2018, by Mustapha, said it withdrew the SAN rank from Ogunba following a petition by Honeywell Group, alleging professional misconduct against him.
Mustapha said after investigating the petition, the LPPC sub-committee “decided that the petition was meritorious,” which culminated in the LPPC’s decision to withdraw the SAN rank from Ogunba at its 129th plenary.
