March 29, 2024
Mobolaji Ojibara

Mobolaji Ojibara: Time to unlearn Old Ways of Service Delivery to Lawyers and re-learn Dynamic and Result-Oriented Styles

By Mobolaji Ojibara

NBA
It is time the bar secretariat is brought closer to its members in terms of service delivery to justify membership and involvement in the affairs of the bar.

 

What is the rationale behind lawyers still queuing up at banks across the country in the name of paying practicing fees at an age when people now engage their banks online in the comfort of their homes and offices?

If committees organising our conferences and conducting our elections can engage members online and electronically, why can’t the ‘engine house’ of our dear foremost association?

It is, therefore, time to unlearn the old way of service delivery to members and re-learn a more dynamic and result oriented style of managing a 21st century professional bar association.

We cannot continue to engage with the old style in the scheme of things and begin to expect new results.

It is time the bar secretariat is brought closer to its members in terms of service delivery to justify membership and involvement in the affairs of the bar.

Bi-annual general election should not be the only activity that should ignite our consciousness as members of the Nigerian Bar Association.

Record had indicated that before the introduction of the stamp regime by the Augustine Alegeh-led administration, just about 20% of members of our noble association pay their ‘membership dues’, otherwise called professional fees. The number has merely increased in recent time due to the need for lawyers to be able to apply for the stamp.

The NBA Secretariat —Engine House of the association—must be appropriately positioned to cater for the evolving and dynamic needs of its teeming members.

 

Dr. Mobolaji Ojibara is a past Chairman of Nigerian Bar Association, Ilorin branch, a trained Arbitrator and a Fellow of the Institute of Natural and Human Resources.

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