*Describes Him as a Lackey of the PDP Led Government in Edo State
*Says the Lion Bar is Now the Pussycat Bar
A Group of Edo State Youth-based Professionals in Nigeria and in the Diaspora-Edo Youth Vanguard (EYV), has called for the resignation of the Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Benin Branch, Nosa Edo-Osagie Esq, describing him as a stooge of the PDP Led Government in Edo State.
In a Statement in Benin City at the weekend, signed by the Convener of the Edo Youth Vanguard, Comrade Osaro Benedict, the organization accused the Benin-NBA boss of conflict of interest by being a stooge of the Peoples Democratic Party-led Edo State Government.
It said: “The Blogosphere was awash this weekend over the partisan and unguarded comments of the Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Benin Branch -,Nosa Edo-Osagie Esq, who has turned the NBA Benin Branch into a joke, as the Exco under his watch, now visits every Tom, Dick and Harry.
“The NBA Benin Branch Chairman-Nosa Edo-Osagie Esq, recently, in a visit to a Politician who has pending cases against other politicians at the Edo State National Assembly Tribunal openly expressed his partisan posture in an ignoble manner never before demonstrated anywhere in Nigeria in any of Branches of the NBA, since the history of the Nigerian Bar Association, stating that he would set up a Committee to monitor a case that the Politician has interest in , as if the NBA has been briefed by the Politician, or as if the NBA is a partisan Organisation.
“It is however not a surprise that Nosa Edo-Osagie is now an image laundering machine for the PDP in Edo State, as he is actually as official of the PDP Led Government in two Agencies, first as a Member of Edo State Private Property Protection Committee and again as a Board Member of the Edo State Public Procurement Agency.
“There is therefore a huge conflict of interest interest for Nosa Edo-Osagie as an official of Government-Nosa Edo Osagie cannot criticise the same Government he works for.
“It is therefore in the place of honour for Nosa Edo-Osagie Esq to either resign his position in Edo State Government or resign as Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association Benin Branch, as he cannot be seen to hold the three positions, as he has shown openly that his involvement in Government is affecting his official responsibilities.
“He cannot perform his duties, without affection or ill will. He is incurably jaundiced. The Lion Bar is now the Pussy Cat Bar, which is now stale, weak and dying in instalment. Members of the Benin Bar should rise and save their Association, before it becomes a laughing stock of Society.”
