1) Presently, National Publicity Secretary, Nigerian Bar Association.
2) Member, National Executive Committee, NBA 2016-till date.
3) Past Vice Chairman, NBA Warri 2016-2018.
4) Past Chairman, NBA Warri Human Right Committee 2016-2018.
5) Past Chairman, NBA Warri Ad Hoc Committee on Members’ Insurance 2016-2018.
6) Past Chairman, NBA Warri Public Interest Litigation Committee 2014-2016
7) Past Chairman, NBA Warri Fake Lawyers and NBA Car Sticker Committee 2014-2016.
8) Member, NBA Human Right Institute (NBA-HRI) 2016-2018
9) Council Member, SPIDEL (2016-2018).
10) Member, NBA National Assets Management Committee 2014-2016
11) Member, NBA Warri 2017 Select Committee: Workshop on the Delta State Administration of Criminal Justice Law.
12) Member, NBA Warri Special Publication Committee that compiled and published “Selected Judgments of the Late Hon. Justice F.O. Ohwo” 2018.
13) Chairman, NBA Warri Special Committee on “State of the Courts in Warri, Effurun and Udu” 2017.
14) Member, MWBF 5 Man Committee to study and appraise the Senator Godswill Akpabio’s proposed amended Legal Practitioners’ Bill-2018.
15) Chairman, NBA Warri Pro bono Committee 2014-2016; 2016-2018.
16) Member, NBA Warri Justice Sector and Anti Corruption Committee 2012-2014
17) Chairman, NBA Warri Publication Committee 2006-2008.
18) Publicity Secretary, NBA Warri 2006-2008.
19) Member, NBA AGC 2019 Technical Committee on Conference Planning.
20) Chairman, Publicity & Media Sub Committee, 2019 AGC.
21) Member, NBA Election Monitoring Group (Bayelsa & Kogi Election 2019)
SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH SOME PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATIONS
1) Suit No. W/437/2013: Olukunle Edun vs. Gov. Delta State & Ors.: First judgment to uphold and make applicable the provisions of the FOI Act,2015 to Delta State.
2) Suit No. UHC/186/2014: Olukunle Edun vs. Gov. Delta State & Ors. Successfully obtained judgment restraining VIOs from stopping private vehicles on the road and declared the issuance of Road Worthiness Certificate to private vehicle owners as unlawful.
3) Suit No.W/01/2015: Okiroro Iki Ebieroma Esq. vs. Gov. Delta State. An unsuccessful attempt to declare as unconstitutional the restriction of movement of persons and vehicles on envirinmental sanitation days in Delta State. The appeal is pending at the SC.
4) CA/B/378/2016: Olukunle Edun v. Gov. Delta State. Unsuccessful attempt to challenge the constitutionality and also stop the humongous sums and benefits being given to former Governors and Deputy Governors of Delta State as pensions and gratuity. Both the trial court and Court of Appeal held that the Claimant lacked the requsite locus standing. Appeal now pending at the SC.
5) Suit No.W/377/2015: Olukunle Edun vs. Gov. Delta State. Successfully obtained judgment under the FOI Act, 2015 demanding for information from the Delta State government regarding the 13% derivation receipts.
6) Suit No. FHC/WR/CS/90/2017: Darlington Ugo Ehirim Esq. v. FRSC. Successfully obtained judgment declaring that the FRSC has no right to carry out their operations on roads belonging to States and municipal governments.
7) Suit No.W/256/2016: Frederick Tuoyo Egbe Esq. v. Chief Registrar, Delta State High Court. Unsuccessfully challenged the unilateral and unlawful imposition of court filing fees by the Governor of Delta State without complying with the provisions of the law. Matter now at the CA.
8) Suit No.W/386/2014: Michael Ukusare Esq & Ors v. Delta State House of Assembly. Acted as lead counsel in another successful action under the FOI Act, 2015 pursued under the auspices of NBA Warri
9) Suit No. FHC/ASB/CS/14/2017: Tareri Avwomakpa Esq. v. DG, DSS: Successful action challenging the unlawful remand of the Plaintiff (a lawyer) by the DSS.
10) Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/281/2019: Olukunle Edun vs. (1)Code of Conduct Burea(2) Mr. Danladi Umar. Action challenging the refusal of the Defendants to honour an FOI request for the assets and liabilities declarations of Mr. Mr. Danladi Umar. Action still pending.
Kunle Edun, as a public interest advocate is not limited by his functions as the National Publicity Secretary. He still finds time to continue his public interest advocacy. Onk3y recently, Kunle Edun and some vibrant lawyers took a bold step to challenge at the Federal High Court, Calabar the purported rejection of Hon. Justice Ikpeme as the substantive Chief Judge of Cross River State on the basis of her State of origin. Kunle Edun is also at the Federal High Coirt, Abuja as a co-plaintiff with Monday Ubani, former 2nd Vice President of the NBA, to challenge 18 States of the Federation for operating Caretaker Committees at the Local Government level.There are more than 20 other pro bono public interest cases and appeals pending at the various High Courts, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court ,all bordering on the rule of law.
OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIETY
1, Formerly, Team Lead, CDHR, Delta State Chapter.
2) Regular contributor on television/radio programnes/nrewspapers on the Rule of law and public interest issues.
3) commentator on
Published numerous articles in prominent national dailies on contemporary legal and public interest issues.
4) Declared ‘ _Constitutional Militant_ ” by the Vanguard newspaper of Tuesday, October 27, 2015.
MEMBERSHIP/CONFERENCES ATTENDED
1) International Bar Association…11th Annual Anti Corruption Conference (Paris 2012)
2) International Bar Association Anti Discrimination Conference (New York 2012).
3) IBA Conference, Washington 2016.
4) Nigerian Bar Association (attended all conferences from 2012 till date).
5) IBA Conference, Seoul 2019.
6) Executive Director, Centre for Democracy and Defenders of Human Rights.
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