Murdered LP senatorial candidate: Enugu lawyers boycott courts

Lawyers and Judges in the five branches of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Enugu State on Thursday boycotted court sittings to express anger over the gruesome killing of a former chairman of the association and senatorial candidate of Labour Party (LP) for Enugu East Senatorial District, Elder Oyibo Chukwu.

Chukwu and some of his supporters, were on Wednesday night shot dead by gunmen in a white Hilux van at Eke-Otu Amechi-Awkunanaw Enugu. Their killers later set them ablaze in his vehicle.

To express anger over the killing of the lawyer, the five branches of the Nigerian Bar Association in the State on Thursday gave security agencies in the State 48 hours to fish out the perpetrators or await actions from all lawyers in the state.

Our correspondent, who monitored the situation in Enugu on Thursday, observed no court at the State High Court complex and others across the State sat.

Judges, who were not aware of the decision, rose immediately they received the information. Speaking with journalists at the court premises in Enugu, the Oji River Branch chairman of the NBA, Seth Nwokolo, said the measure was taken to urge government and security agencies to apprehend the killers of the lawyer and for human lives to be adequately protected. Nation