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IBRAHIM, CON, SAN (Read the Direction): The present complaint concerns Rotimi Williams Akintokun Esq, a legal practitioner practising under the name and style of Rotimi Williams Akintokun and Company of 75B, Coker road, Ilupeju, Lagos (the respondent). The complaint brought against the said legal practitioner before this committee emanated from a petition dated the 20th of August, 2002 written against him to the Nigerian Bar Association (the complainant) by his clients, the Ogunsesu family of Ule Ogunsesu, 4 Olubi Street, Itundegun, Ikorodu, Lagos State (the petitioners) alleging that the respondent, legal practitioner committed acts of professional misconduct in that while acting as their solicitor he deliberately misled them regarding an alleged acquisition of their land by the Lagos State Government. That he failed to carry out his clients’ instructions to promptly move against adversaries in respect of the land. He also caused the land to be under- surveyed with i…