{"id":11054,"date":"2016-08-22T06:08:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T06:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=11054"},"modified":"2016-08-22T06:08:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T06:08:54","slug":"fight-against-corruption-outside-the-ambit-of-the-law-is-corruption-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=11054","title":{"rendered":"Fight against corruption outside the ambit of the law is corruption &#8211; NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Bar Association(NBA)<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/nigeria-bar-association-logo.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11055\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11055\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/nigeria-bar-association-logo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"nigeria-bar-association-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/nigeria-bar-association-logo-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/nigeria-bar-association-logo.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> has said that the Federal Government\u2019s fight against corruption should be in line with the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>President of the NBA, Mr Augustine Alegeh, SAN, who spoke, yesterday, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, at the opening of the annual conference of the body, said that if the fight against corruption was outside the ambit of the law, such action amounted to corruption itself.<\/p>\n<p>Alegeh also chided the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for having 136 inconclusive elections across the country within the last one year.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe restate our commitment to zero tolerance to corruption as lawyers. We recognise that our country is stagnated by corruption<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe war against corruption must be fought within the ambits of the law. Any attempt to fight corruption through other means is corruption itself.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe NBA will join the fight against corruption within the ambits of the law.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf the fight against corruption is to take what was unlawfully acquired by one man and give it to another, count us out,\u201d<\/em> he warned.<\/p>\n<p>herald.ng<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=9962&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Bar Association(NBA) has said that the Federal Government\u2019s fight against corruption should be in line with the rule of law. President of the NBA, Mr Augustine Alegeh, SAN, who spoke, yesterday, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, at the opening of the annual conference of the body, said that if the fight against corruption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[2807],"class_list":["post-11054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-nigerian-bar-association"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/nigeria-bar-association-logo.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-2Si","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11056,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054\/revisions\/11056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}