OGUNLANA, RAMINBA CALL FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF KUNLE AWOMA ESQ.

Mr. Ogunlana Adesina Ademola , the Chairman of the Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association and presidential candidate in the 2020 National Elections of the Nigerian Bar Association has called for the immediate release of Kunle AWOMA ESQ, a legal practitioner and member of the Ikeja Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association, who has been in the custody of the Anti-Cultism Unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) of the Lagos State Command  of the Nigerian Police Force based on a criminal complaint of making advertisements as regards an instrument of Power of Attorney in relation to his client's landed property, based on the instructions of his clients.

In a statement issued by Ayo Ademiluyi, the Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association (RAMINBA) and Director of Media, Strategy, Publicity and Communications of #ProgressiveBar2020, Mr. Ogunlana expressed dissatisfaction with the humiliation and indignity that Mr. KUNLE AWOMA has gone through while performing his professional duties to his client.

According to the statement, Mr. KUNLE AWOMA has been detained for five days running, after reporting to the Force Headquarters Annex, Kam Salem House, Obalende, where he was confronted with a petition submitted to the office of the Inspector General of Police alleging him of forgery of documents with which he is using to prosecute some civil matters that he has been handling for some time.

He was subsequently detained before being taken to the horrible detention cells of the Anti-Cultism Unit, where he is being kept or better put, " warehoused".

Mr. Ogunlana called on the Inspector General of Police to order the immediate  release of Kunle AWOMA ESQ.

In a related development, Mr. Ogunlana has assured all members of the Association that if the prime leadership of the Association  is vested on him, the Association stand with all her members both in times of grief and unwarranted suffering by Government or any agency of Government.