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NBA V. EDU

(2006) JELR 70123 (LPDC)

Legal Practitioner Disciplinary Committee  •  1 Aug 2006  •  Nigeria

Coram
ALHAJI ABDULLAHI IBRAHIM, CON, OFR, SAN (Chairman) (Read the Judgment of the Committee), HON. JUSTICE LAWAL HASS AN GUMMI, (Chief Judge of Federal Capital Territory) - Member, HON. JUSTICE UMARU ERI, OFR, (Chief Judge of Kogi State) - Member HON. JUSTICE KULU ALIYU, (Chief Judge of Zamfara State) - Member PROF. A. A. UTUAMA, SAN, (Attorney-General of Delta State) - Member EMMANUEL TORO, SAN - Member, RICHARD N. YERIMAH, (Attorney-General of Adamawa State) - Member CHIEF ADEGBOYEGA S. AWOMOLO, SAN - Member, CHIEF N. NWANODI, SAN - Member

Appearances
Dr. Garba Tetengi for the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) the Complainant on behalf of the Petitioner; Respondent, Oluwasesan Edu, absent and unrepresented.

Judgement

ABDULLAHI IBRAHIM, SAN, CHAIRMAN (Delivering the Judgment of the Committee): The facts of this complaint before us are as follows: A company by name Airline Management Support Limited of 142, Oba Akran Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos has through its Solicitor, complained to the Nigerian Bar Association about the infamous conduct of one Mr. Oluwasesan Edu, a Legal Practitioner of the Pirm of Edu Oluwasesan and Associates, 4th floor, Poatson House, 142 Oba Akran Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos.

According to the Solicitor to the Airline Management Support Ltd., the company had paid the sum of two million, five hundred and twenty thousand naira (N2,520.000.00) to Oluwasesan Edu for a lease of a warehouse at 142 Oba Akran Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos for a period of three years. The payment was acknowledged by Oluwasesan Edu, vide his receipt number IK 0000210 dated 9th July, 2004.

Oluwasesan Edu, had agreed to deliver the possession of the warehouse to the company seven days after the payment confirmation vide Lirst Ban…

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