“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” – William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2Tamuno Igbikiberebima is an unlikely star in an action movie. Like their male counterparts in Rivers State, female lawyers have not been spared. This pattern of killing of lawyers in and around Port Harcourt is not history. Former First Vice-President of the Nigerian Bar Association, John Aikpokpo Martins, says of these attacks on lawyers in Rivers State that “it is so normal to kill a lawyer for defending others.”Increasingly, many Nigerian lawyers now live on the horns of a choice between silver and lead. Today, the emergency affects lawyers all over the country and requires the Bar Association to re-imagine itself and its capabilities.

Source: Punch December 11, 2022 19:30 UTC