Former NBA president Wali kidnapped

The immediate past President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Mr. Okey Wali (SAN) has been kidnapped. He was kidnapped on Saturday at about 9pm by yet to be identified persons in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The NBA President Augustine Alegeh in a statement early this morning made a passionate appeal to his abductors to […]

The immediate past President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Mr. Okey Wali (SAN) has been kidnapped.

He was kidnapped on Saturday at about 9pm by yet to be identified persons in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

The NBA President Augustine Alegeh in a statement early this morning made a passionate appeal to his abductors to release him immediately to his family.

Mr. Wali, an indigene of Rivers State was elected the NBA’s president in 2012 and served in that capacity until July this year.

“Okey Wali SAN is a man of peace who has not only contributed immensely to the enthronement of rule of law and protection of human rights, but also to the development of our Nation,” Alegeh said in a statement.