N100m Imo Govt Gift Tears NBA Owerri Apart as National Body Orders Probe, Demands Financial Records

• makes up committee to examine claims surrounding the invoice and dispensation of a N100 million present from the Imo State Government to the association’s Owerri Branch.

• The intervention follows needs by 183 members of the branch for an Extraordinary General Meeting to look for responses over the questionable fund.

• orders conservation and production of invoices, bank declarations, expense schedules, approvals, payment coupons and other records gotten in touch with the N100 million.

• Private investigators are to go to the October 15 remarkable conference and send findings and suggestions to the NBA President no behind October 30, 2026.

October 15, (THEWILL)– The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has actually released an examination into accusations of impropriety surrounding the invoice, management and dispensation of a N100 million present from the Imo State Government to its Owerri Branch, amidst growing concerns from members over how the cash was managed.

The intervention by the nationwide management followed an intensifying conflict within the Owerri Branch, where 183 members requisitioned an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) to require descriptions worrying the fund.

NBA President, Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, SAN, in a letter dated October 14, 2026, dealt with to the Chairman of the NBA Owerri Branch, Mazi Udegbulem, stated the debate needed a “clear account and a reasonable evaluation.”

She as a result made up a three-member committee consisting of NBA General Secretary, Afam Okeke; Third Vice-President, Iniobong Irene Pepple; and Treasurer, Esther Jimoh, to examine the claims.

The committee has actually been mandated to analyze records connecting to the N100 million, get representations from individuals worried, and report its findings and suggestions to the NBA President on or before October 30.

The advancement raises the stakes in the debate that has actually agitated the Owerri Branch, especially as the nationwide body has actually now required the conservation and production of monetary documents connecting to the federal government present.

According to the NBA President, members who have actually raised concerns about the cash need to be enabled to look for responses, however the procedure should be performed in an organized environment.

“The issues raised about the invoice and dispensation of the N100 million present from the Imo State Government need a clear account and a reasonable assessment.

“Members need to have a chance to raise their concerns and get responses. That procedure must, nevertheless, continue in an environment favorable to organized conversation,” Badejo-Okusanya stated.

The NBA President stated the investigative committee would participate in the EGM arranged for Thursday, October 15, at 2:00 p.m. as her agents.

She directed the Owerri Branch management to assist in the committee’s access to the location and accord its members complete cooperation.

Beyond observing procedures, the committee has actually been authorised to make sure that a signed presence register is taken and to release instructions thought about essential to ensure an organized conference.

The nationwide body likewise purchased that all monetary records connecting to the N100 million be provided at the conference, with copies provided to the investigative committee within 24 hours of invoice of the President’s letter.

The files required consist of invoices, bank declarations, expense schedules and descriptions, approvals, payment coupons and any other supporting files gotten in touch with the fund.

“All records associating with the present should be protected,” Badejo-Okusanya directed.

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The committee will consequently scrutinise the records and speak with individuals whose actions or choices relate to the debate before reaching its conclusions.

The NBA President warned versus dealing with the constitution of the committee as a decision of misbehavior versus any member or authorities of the Owerri Branch.

She worried that the examination was planned to develop the truths which anybody whose conduct was questioned would be provided a chance to react.

“The constitution of this Committee does not total up to a finding versus anybody. Everybody whose conduct is cast doubt on will be provided a reasonable chance to react,”” the NBA President stated.

She likewise required complete cooperation from both the management of the Owerri Branch and the members who requisitioned the remarkable conference, worrying that the conflict should be managed in a way efficient in bring back self-confidence amongst legal representatives in the branch.

“The concerns raised are worthy of responses, and the individuals worried are worthy of a reasonable hearing. Our duty is to offer a procedure that provides both and sustains the self-confidence of members in their Branch,” she stated.

Background

The debate centres on a N100 million present apparently made by the Imo State Government to the NBA Owerri Branch and concerns consequently raised by some members worrying its invoice, management and dispensation.

The difference heightened adequately for 183 members to appropriation an Extraordinary General Meeting, bringing the disagreement over the fund into the open and triggering correspondence in between the branch and the NBA nationwide management on October 13 and 14.

The nationwide intervention successfully moves the matter beyond an internal argument at branch level, with senior NBA nationwide officers now mandated to separately analyze the monetary records and hear the contending accounts surrounding the cash.