By Blessing Udeobasi
Following reports making rounds that the recently disqualified Big Brother Naija housemate, Beauty Tukura is a lawyer, the First Vice President of the Nigeria Bar Association, John Aikpokpo-Martins, has dismissed the reports saying her name is not on the legal practitioners register.
In a statement shared on social media, he claimed that the former beauty queen’s name did not come up in the Roll of Legal Practitioners in the Supreme Court and the Nigerian Bar Association.
“My attention and I guess of a large number of lawyers in Nigeria have been drawn to news reports that one Beauty Tukura, who is claimed and/or claims to be a lawyer participated and also got ignominiously disqualified from the on-going Big Brother Naija reality show “for throwing her wig and glasses at” a co-participant in the show after a party.
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“These reports have been very embarrassing to most members of the legal profession and may in all reasonable probability bring the profession into disrepute if found to be true. A quick check of the databases of the Roll of Legal Practitioners kept in the Supreme Court and the Nigerian Bar Association failed to reveal the name “Beauty Tukura” to be on the Supreme Court Roll or to be a member of the Nigerian Bar Association.
“However, I hereby appeal to anyone who may be aware of her true name assuming we may have gotten her real name wrong to reach out to me. Thank you.”
Recall that Beauty, who claimed to be a legal practitioner, was evicted from the reality show for fighting with a co-participant.
