The Nigeria Bar Association, Aba Branch woke up on Tuesday the 3rd day of September 2024 to hear the ugly and sad news of the gruesome murder of one of her members, Barr. Lucky Chinonso Emeh, who works with the Abia State Ministry of Justice, Umuahia.

However, preliminary inquiry and investigation from the family when the Executive Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association Aba Branch led by her Chairman, Charles Nsobundu Onuchukwu, Esq paid the immediate family of late Barr. Lucky Chinonso Emeh a condolence visit, it revealed that our deceased colleague(Barr. Lucky Chinonso Emeh) received a phone call from someone he knew at about 7:45 pm on Monday Evening of 2nd day of September 2024, requesting for late Barr. Lucky Chinonso Emeh to come to a particular location which the said late Barr. Lucky Chinonso Emeh declined.

The executive committee of Aba Branch was further informed by the elder brother of the deceased by name Mr Justice Emeh that at about 8:00pm the same Monday evening, late Barr. Lucky Chinonso Emeh went to a restaurant in front of his house to eat, the same person who called him at about 7:45 pm called him again and he told them that he was in a restaurant in front his house. The said caller and his gang came to where he was eating and shot him two times on his forehead.

The assailants after shooting him, took his phone and entered their nearby vehicle that was steaming and zoomed off.

The attack on lawyers who are in private and public practices in recent times can no longer be tolerated. Our Colleague’s life was sniffed off in his prime and this is unacceptable. We therefore condemn this dastardly act and demand that the perpetrators of this heinous crime be brought to book.

We demand and urge the Commissioner of Police Abia State Command to take this case very serious as lawyers who are lawfully applying their trade have now become endangered species. The gruesome murder of Barr. Lucky Chinonso Emeh is a complete affront and assault on members of the Nigerian Bar Association Aba Branch and same is hereby condemned in its entirety.

The branch will not leave any stone unturned in getting to the root of this dastard act as well as apprehending these dare-devils in the form of human beings who mindlessly took the life of our colleague in his prime.

Charles Nsobundu Onuchukwu, Esq Chairman and Chuks Nwaokoro, Esq Secretary, NBA ABA branch.