By Abimbola Ogunnaike
A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr Okey Wali, SAN, has finally regained freedom after two weeks in the den of kidnappers.
The 26th President of the NBA was kidnapped and held hostage for 14 days following a violent attack on his convoy along East-West Road, in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State on 17 April 2023.
The President of NBA, Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, SAN, made this disclosure on the evening of Monday, 1 May, 2023.
Maikyau, who called on the Federal Government to live up to its constitutional responsibility of protecting the lives and properties of all Nigerians in all its ramification, described what Wali went through as a “horrific ordeal.”
