Statement of Iniobong Irene Pepple: Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) National Elections 2018

Distinguished members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), the 2018 Bar Elections is prepping up to be one of the most defining elections in Bar history. The stakes are high, the parade of candidates is great, the passion of supporters is unprecedented, and there is an ever-growing public interest, principally because we are in the digital/information age. This digital component has provided probably the greatest challenge yet in this Bar Election season.

The pre-election process of verification is a particular case in point, on which a second ICT service provider is at work presently. I wish to commend the teaming mass of Nigerian lawyers for their patience and for keeping the faith for a leadership transition in the national leadership of the NBA. I urge us to keep trying to verify until we succeed. This is the only way our votes will count and democracy in the Bar will be strengthened.

I personally experienced difficulty but with persistence concluded my verification. I have personally reached out to a number of NBA members online and offline to assist with difficulties with verification. I am glad too that Ini Irene Pepple for Assistant Financial Secretary (IIPFAS) platforms have proven robust fora for useful ideas on getting around Bar election related challenges. I have reached out to necessary quarters with feedback on a number of problems encountered by many lawyers in the Bar Election processes and will continue to do so.

I am encouraged that the Nigerian Bar Association Election Committee (ECNBA) has acknowledged a lot of these challenges and extended verification to 10 a.m. of Sunday 5 August 2018. Accreditation and e-voting is now slated for 11:59 p.m. of Monday 6 August 2018 to 11:59 p.m. of Wednesday 8 August 2018.

I encourage us all to keep in mind the folk wisdom that nothing good comes easy, and stay engaged until victory is achieved in an impressive vote tally.

Thank you

Iniobong Irene Pepple
Candidate for National Assistant Financial Secretary of NBA

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Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee holds a multidisciplinary PhD in international human rights law, legal information technology (aspects of legal informatics), indigenous customary law, and indigenous rights and LLM in transborder comparative analysis of free access to public legal information. He is an associate professor of law and a former legal research national consultant to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on the 1998 PCASED project that provided the juridical foundations for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) 1998 Moratorium which culminated in a regional multilateral treaty: ECOWAS Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons, their Ammunition and other Related Matters 2006. He devised the <.officiallaws) official public legal information generic top-level domain (gTLD) system for easy identification of the reliable versions of the laws published online worldwide; developed the system of nationally networked one-stop official public legal information websites (the NOPLIW system) for the optimal findability and management of online law databases; invented the human rights-based public access-adequate huricompatisation model of ascertainment of indigenous customary law (huricompatisation); formulated the new human rights-advocacy approach (NHRAA) that consists of a set of ten onerous criteria for the formal universal recognition of new human rights; and pioneered the global advocacy of the formal universal recognition of the right of free access to public legal information as a substantive or stand-alone human right in 2017 (https://publiclegalinformation.com).
His Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series consists of 22 (twenty-two) modern academic article-style independent but interconnected chapters of the following four books:
• Developments in Human Rights Law and the Proposed Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information: The New Human Rights-Advocacy Approach and the Ten Criteria for the Formal Recognition of New Human Rights (Volume 1) — ISBN 9789083108520 (eBook) and 9789083108506 (paperback);
• The New Human Rights-Based Huricompatisation Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law: Strategies for Adequate Local and Global Public Access (Volume 2) — ISBN 9789083108568 (eBook) and 9789083108544 (paperback);
• Innovative Technological Mechanisms for Adequate Web-Based Access to National and Global Public Legal Information (Volume 3) — ISBN 9789083108513 (eBook) and 9789083108582 (paperback); and
• A Model Empirical Study of the State of Free Access to Nigerian Public Legal Information (Volume 4) — ISBN 9789083108551 (eBook) and 9789083108537 (paperback).
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Statement of Iniobong Irene Pepple: Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) National Elections 2018