The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA is on the view that development can thrive only in a society where justice prevails.
NBA President Yakubu Maikyau, SAN made the assertion in Abuja while being hosted by his friends and colleagues of the Nigerian Law School class of 1990.
According to him, only justice can ensure development in a society and the absence of justice is responsible for any chaos in society.
Maikyau however call on all lawyers to speak up and ensure that people knew that the justice system could not be compromised as the rule of law was the fulcrum of the justice system.
The NBA President also advised lawyers to support him to change the narrative as that was the task ahead of them, urging them to join him in working towards the independence of the judiciary.
Speaking at the event, a justice of the Supreme Court Justice Amina Augie expressed optimism that in two years when Maikyau and the current Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN Olukayode Ariwoola leave the stage, they would have left footprints in the sands of time.
