The Maiduguri branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has suspended 14 of its members for publicly de­nouncing calls for the probe of former Borno governor, Ali Sheriff and ex-Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen Azubuike Ihejirika by branch leaders.

Chairman of the association, Abdulwasiu Alfa told journal­ists at a press conference in Maiduguri, Borno State capital yesterday that the association took the decision due to what he called “gross misconduct and going against the bye-laws on the part of the members.”

Alfa had last Friday at a press briefing announced the decision of the branch to drag the ex-Borno governor and former COAS before the Inter­national Criminal Court (ICC), Hague for alleged complicity in the Boko Haram insurgency, a pronouncement which some members described as “politi­cally inclined.”

The members, led by one Audu Hassan, had challenged the leadership of the bar in the area for making such pro­nouncement without the ap­proval of the congress, which is the highest decision-making body of the association, alleg­ing that the leaders were moti­vated by pecuniary gains rather than their professional calling. They also called on the leaders to eschew partisan politics and rise to the challenge of fight­ing human rights abuses in the state.

But the hullabaloo over the call for the probe of the two leaders took another dimension yesterday as the NBA descend­ed heavily on the 14 members who led the group after an emergency meeting, pronounc­ing their position as “gross-misconduct” and violation of the association’s bye-laws on holding press conferences.

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