DAUDU, SAN (Delivering the Leading Direction of the Committee): The respondent is facing a 2 count complaint of professional misconduct before us i.e. the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee initiated by the Nigerian Bar Association pursuant to exhibit P1-P2, a letter from the then General Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association Ibrahim Mark, Esqr. dated the 30th of July 2009. Excerpt of the letter is reproduced here below:
‘the legal practitioner fraudulently or by trick obtained from the complainant the sum of ₦1.6M under the pretext that he sold to him 8 plots of land at Agbama Olokoro in the year 2002 but that ever since the transaction, the purchaser (complainant) has not been able to take possession of the land or received refund of his money despite repeated demands’.
The NBA Disciplinary Committee considered all available materials and found that,
1. The legal practitioner admitted that the petitioner bought land from him for the sum of ₦1.6m and has not taken possession…