VOL.10 NO.4

READERS PAVILION

DIRTY LAWYER
The Editor,
Did you try discussing Sesan Akinlaja’s shabby appearance with him before you ‘bugged’ him in the Squib? As for me, it is twice now that I had advised him on need to improve on his terrible appearance.
Editor’s Note: So you too know him to be a shabby dresser?

DIRTY LAWYER
The Editor,
It has become habitual for Julius Olusesan Akinlaja to dress shabbily. In fact I know him very well but I think the problem started when he lost his wife a few years back. Since that incident, he has not been himself again.
Editor’s Note: So sorry to hear about Mr. Akinlaja’s loss, nonetheless he needs to move on with his life and in fair and fine appearances too!

DIRTY LAWYER
The Editor,
You this man, how many times have I advised that you take things easy with people God! See how heavily you fell on Akinlaja in this week’s edition. But then the truth is that he was so badly dressed on the New Legal Year day. In fact I had to call him aside to complain about his appearance and asked him if you are this dirty, how do you expect people to buy your books?
Editor’s Note: Good question.

DIRTY LAWYER
The Editor,
I was so excited, in fact thrilled reading your article on the shabbily dressed lawyer. Such a fellow should have been walked out of the occasion. You know there are lawyers who dress in such a way that you are ashamed to identify yourself as a lawyer. And one should blame seniors in the profession for their relaxed attitude to poor and improper dressing among lawyers.
I am 25 years at the bar now and remember when I was a new wig, how seniors would take up any lawyer who dressed improperly. In Lagos here, you can trust Kehinde Sofola S.A.N. to take you up on the colour or texture of your bibs etc.
Nowadays seniors no longer act that way and that’s not good for the profession.

SQUIB
The Editor,
Don’t you think that going by all these your stories one day all your victims will come together to donate canes to give you a collective thrashing? See how you mercilessly bugged this Mr. Sesan Akinlaja, the dirty lawyer. However I must concede that is a very interesting magazine and one doesn’t have to be a lawyer to enjoy it. For me I love reading the “Learned Squib article and the Readers’ Pavilion”. I don’t like the articles of the professor, too boring for me and the Case Law, I don’t touch-that’s for lawyers I am sure if the squib goes public, it will enjoy wide readership among non-lawyers. Give it a thought; after there are health magazines all over the place and they are not limited to doctors and nurses.
Anytime I read the Squib in my office, I’ll be smiling broadly and people used to wonder at me. On one occasion I invited an enquiring colleague to read what I found so amusing. The next thing was for her to burst out laughing infact she said if she were in my shoes, instead of merely smiling broadly like I have been doing, she’d be on the floor, rolling with mirth!
Editor’s Note: Thank you. Please keep reading, we’ll keep squibbing.

SQUIB
The Editor,
Now that I have met you, I shall remember to put you in my prayers. When I first saw you, I think in Justice Obadina’s court, I was surprised at your looks. I wondered to myself, how could somebody looking so gentle and calm-write such hot stuff.
And to think that you write all these things, walking about freely and without any security. You must be close to close. But for your efforts in the Squib, the Judiciary would have been much worse.
Editor’s Note: To God only, be the glory.

SQUIB
The Editor,
I think it is high time, you extended your crusade to the Court of Appeal, Lagos I don’t know what that court is turning to. For the past two weeks now, two whole weeks after coming back from vacation, the court has not been sitting. A fortnight ago, they said the judges went for a conference and only last week, they said the judges had been summoned to Abuja by the Supreme Court or was it the NJC?
This is no way for a Court of Appeal to be run.
Editor’s Note: I think we’ll look in the direction of ‘upstairs’ very soon.

SQUIB
The Editor,
I want to thank you so much for the Squib. I believe the Squib is one of your callings. You know everyman has his own calling….. not everybody could do the squib. You have the courage. Thank you so much.
Editor’s Note: Really, it is God we should thank. Always.

SQUIB
The Editor,
I just want to thank you for the Squib. Oh, how I do thoroughly enjoy that magazine, so interesting and informative.
Editor’s Note: Thank you. Please keep reading, we’ll keep squibbing.


SQUIB
The Editor,
I overheard one of our “charge and bail” colleagues telling some people that one had better start dressing well, otherwise, the Squib would just put one’s photograph on the cover of the magazine.
Editor’s Note: Just like that?

SQUIB
The Editor,
Man of courage. Salutations.
Editor’s Note: To God only be the glory

SQUIB
The Editor,
On the basis of the Squib you should be given the S.A.N award
Editor’s Note: Yee pa! who dash monkey banana?