No fewer than 50 lawyers in Enugu State will provide free legal services for indigent petitioners appearing before the Police Brutality and Extra-Judicial Killings Panel sitting in the state. The Chairman, NBA Sub-Committee on Probono, Mr Nnadiume Awforkansi, announced this on Monday in Enugu during the panel’s sitting. Awforkansi said that the lawyers would be drawn from the five NBA branches at Enugu, Ezeagu, Nsukka, Oboloafor and Oji River. That is why we decided to provide these services to represent those who cannot afford legal services,” Awforkansi said. Udeh said that there were indications that a good number of the petitioners could not afford legal services.

Source: The Guardian November 23, 2020 14:26 UTC