Over N3 million was donated by dignitaries on Monday during the opening ceremony of the Nigerian Bar Association’s annual general meeting, which was held in Lagos.
The money donated is said to be used to support the NBA female football competition to be held as part of the events during the eight-day conference.
This was done after Award-winning author and speaker, Chimamanda Adichie noted that there was “injustice” in the monetary compensation that the male and female NBA teams receive in the football competition.
According to reports, the male team gets about N500,000 while the female team would get N200,000 as winning prizes.
However, after Adiche’s charge, several personalities made contributions to increase the women’s football prize to the sum of N3,200,000.
Personalities, who made the donations included the Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, the Federal Minister of Works and Housing of Nigeria, Babatunde Fashola, SAN, Paul Edeh, among others.
Additionally, Chimamanda in her speech urged the citizens to hold themselves accountable before holding the leaders responsible during her speech on responsibility.
She said, “A bold transition must embrace audacity and innovation. They have called me troublesome. Although it is never enjoyable to be called troublesome. I never set out to provoke for its sake. But I refuse to silence myself for the fear of what I might inadvertently provoke. It has always been important to me to say what I believe, to call out injustice.
“As long as we refuse to untangle the knot of injustice, peace cannot thrive. If we don’t talk about it, we fail to hold leaders accountable and we turn what should be transparent systems into ugly opaque cults.”
In her closing remarks, she advocated for an uncorrupted judicial system and called on the NBA to leverage technology in the judicial process and the administration of justice in the country.
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