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| *Apostle Suleman |
Apostle Johnson Suleman's letter to the Festus Keyamo Chambers is reproduced below:
Festus Keyamo Chambers
Sir,
Allegation Of Professional Misconduct And Unethical Practices.
Sequel to our
letter to you dated 6th March, 2017, we have observed with shock and dismay
your deliberate and relentless efforts to malign and convict our client,
Apostle Johnson Suleman, through media trial.
By your relentless
media campaign, you are conducting yourself in a manner inconsistent with S.1 of the Rules of Professional Conduct For Legal Practitioners 2007. Instead
of gathering your facts and evidence before a court of competent jurisdiction
for adjudication you have cleverly resorted to blackmail and intimidation of
our client through the media – both traditional and social media. In short, you
have threatened and indeed executed your threat of conjuring, manufacturing and
synthesizing bogus and unverifiable exhibits in the social media and newspapers,
all with a view to poison public opinion against our client and reduce his
esteem and reputation in the eye of any reasonable man. Your attitude is also
to ambush a fair trial while litigation is anticipated. This is contrary to S.33 of the Rules of Professional Conduct For Legal Practitioners 2007.
In the Punch
newspapers of Tuesday, March 7, 2017 Vol. 41 No 21,388 page 10, you were quoted
in an interview threatening to “release
more bullets.” You said your client under your supervision will be
organizing a world press conference and “we
will begin to release bullets.”
Furthermore, you
grossly and recklessly maligned our client, saying, “these men of God are not what they claim to be, we have a duty to
protect the public. Many of them are fake and fraudsters. You will see the
video very soon in the next few minutes.” True to your threat of trial
publicity stunts, the video clips have flooded the social media networks.
