Nigeria: A People's Lawyer Is Gone

24 July 2014
opinion

Tunde Akanni pays tribute to the late lawyer and activist, Bamidele Aturu, whom he described as a people's lawyer of his generation

Aturu's path and mine crossed each other at the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) in mid 1990s where I had shared the same office with his bossom friend, Omolade Adunbi, now an anthropology professor at the University of Michigan, the United States. Such was his consistent oyaya or warm disposition and large-heartedness that everyone, whose path crossed that of BF, as we fondly called him, was "my brother" or "my sister".

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