Bar Association; Law Society of Kenya; Tanganyika Law Society; Uganda Law Society and Zanzibar Law Society. It has formal Observer Status with the East African Community. 6. At all material times, Mr. Isidore Rufyikiri was the President of the Burundi Bar Association and also the President of the Burundi Centre for Arbitration and Conciliation (CEBAC) and sometime in 2013, charges of corruption were made against him in respect of his association with CEBAC. 7. On 24th July 2013, Mr. Rufyikiri, wrote a letter Ref.: CAMRI/0427/2013 to the Governor of Bubanza Province in Burundi and the subject of the said letter read as “Litigation between Masenge Venant and the Government of Burundi: warning.” 8. As a result of what was alleged by the 1st Respondent to be injurious and defamatory declarations contained in the abovementioned letter, the Prosecutor General of the Court of Appeal of Bujumbura, by his letter Ref.: No.552/11/1584/2013 of 07th October 2013, filed a complaint against Mr. Rufyikiri to the Bar Council of the Burundi Bar Association and requested that the Council should take disciplinary measures against Mr. Rufyikiri. 9. On 29th October 2013, Mr. Rufyikiri, then also President of The Burundi Bar Association, organized a Press Conference in which he made declarations allegedly considered by the 1st Respondent to be against the rules, State security and public peace. 10. On 30th October 2013, the Prosecutor General of the Court of Appeal of Bujumbura, by his letter No.552/11/1722/2013 of 30th October 2013, requested the Bar Council of the Court of Appeal of Bujumbura to disbar Mr. Rufyikiri from the Roll of Advocates because of the abovementioned declarations made on 29th October 2013. REFERENCE NO.1 OF 2014 Page 3