READERS’ PAVILION
KESSINGTON J
The Editor,
I read your story on the Late Justice Abiodun Kessington and his eccentric ways and keen sense of Justice. Well, here in Ibadan, Oyo State, we have a judge like that, Adeniran J. Occasionally, he took speaks Yoruba in his court. There was a time the judge came late to court. Just as he wanted to start proceedings, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria present stood up and started berating the judge for not apologising to the bar for late coming.
Guess what Adeniran J did? He said the following words:
“Iyun, ni kootu mi na o?
Registrar, fun gbogbgo won ni date.
Ma fun okunrin yen sa o.
Akpo ….. ki lo pe ra e”
(“Isn’t it wonderful to have myself so tongue-lashed in my very court? Mr. Registrar, adjourn all cases. Give them new dates, but don’t give that man (the Senior advocate) any date. Akpo …….. whatever he calls himself”)
On another occasion, a land dispute came up before Adeniran J. The actual owner was an illiterate old man. The land in dispute lay in challenge and the plaintiff who gave only ten thousand naira to the old man during transaction for the sale of the land as transportation money now claimed it was the purchase price of the land. To make matters worse, the old man’s lawyer, apparently in collusion with the adverse party advised his client to claim in court that he collected money from the plaintiff as purchase price. But the old man had keen native intelligence. He consulted another lawyer on the matter and he was advised not to accept collecting any purchase price for his land. At trial, the old man’s lawyer put the question to him:-
Lawyer: “Baba, did you collect any money on your land from the plaintiff.
Client: I didn’t but may be you collected.
The lawyer repeated the question some more times but the old man stood his ground. Adeniran J. immediately realised that something fishy was on. He gave judgment to the old man and said “- Ha ha, ten thousand fun ile ni Shallenji!
Ki se n’Ibadan n’bi.
Boya l’abule yin;
Baba, eni ba wa sori ile yin,
E no won”
(“Incredible-for land at Challenge in Ibadan to go for a mere ten thousand naira? Not in Ibadan, may be in your (defendant’s) village. Baba if any body trespasses on your land, beat them up”!)
Editor’s Note: - To every jurisdiction, at least one Kessington J?
SQUIB
The Editor,
If you err, who will Squib the Squib?
Editor’s Note: - The Squib, of course.
SQUIB
The Editor,
You look great in this your Tiv attire, it is Squibable. I must see it in the Squib.
Editor’s Note: - As your Readership pleases!
JUSUN
The Editor,
I want to thank you for your comments on the Television over the last JUSUN strike. Thank you for defending so strongly the cause of Judiciary workers.
Editor’s Note: - Our pleasure.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Vol 8 No 17 18th February 2008
THE READERS’ PAVILION
KESSINGTON J.
The Editor,
I was shocked to learn of the passing away of the late Justice Kessington in a story in the recent issue of your publication (The Squib). You gave the story a very good treatment for which I write to congratulate and thank you. We all have our human foibles and idiosyncrasies which makes us the individuals that we are. “Kessy” was a hero of the Lagos Judiciary. May His Soul find everlasting favour with its Maker.
Editor’s Note: - Amen.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I won’t blame you too much any judge who is after you. You can be something of handful in your write-ups, especially the merciless and irreverent way you poke fun at those in authority. For example, I just kept laughing when I read your story about the judge (Ojikutu - Oshode J.) who beat up her judicial assistant.
Editor’s Note: - Please keep reading, we’ll keep squibbing.
MASTER FORGER
The Editor,
Have you heard of the case of a lawyer who forged Justice Oshodi’s judgment?
Editor’s Note: - Sure, working on it.
KESSINGTON J.
The Editor,
I was very sorry to learn of the passing on of the great Kess. Any news of the funeral or how I can reach the family. Kess was particularly fond of me. He used to call me “Agbako.” A very lively man indeed.
Olisa Agbakoba S.A.N
Editor’s Note: - Quite!
KESSINGTON J.
The Editor,
I was shocked to learn of the passing away of the late Justice Kessington in a story in the recent issue of your publication (The Squib). You gave the story a very good treatment for which I write to congratulate and thank you. We all have our human foibles and idiosyncrasies which makes us the individuals that we are. “Kessy” was a hero of the Lagos Judiciary. May His Soul find everlasting favour with its Maker.
Editor’s Note: - Amen.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I won’t blame you too much any judge who is after you. You can be something of handful in your write-ups, especially the merciless and irreverent way you poke fun at those in authority. For example, I just kept laughing when I read your story about the judge (Ojikutu - Oshode J.) who beat up her judicial assistant.
Editor’s Note: - Please keep reading, we’ll keep squibbing.
MASTER FORGER
The Editor,
Have you heard of the case of a lawyer who forged Justice Oshodi’s judgment?
Editor’s Note: - Sure, working on it.
KESSINGTON J.
The Editor,
I was very sorry to learn of the passing on of the great Kess. Any news of the funeral or how I can reach the family. Kess was particularly fond of me. He used to call me “Agbako.” A very lively man indeed.
Olisa Agbakoba S.A.N
Editor’s Note: - Quite!
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Vol 8 No 16 4th February 2008
READERS’ PAVILION
THE SECRET IMPEDIMENT
The Editor,
When I read your Learned Squib article. “The Secret Impediment, I looked round the Bar Centre grounds for any sight of the “rubber” you complained about, but I did not see any. However with you now as my guide, I can see quite a lot and your article now makes sense to me. I agree the Bar Centre {Secretariat of NBA Ikeja} needs urgent cleansing.
Editor’s Note: - Quite!
THE SECRET IMPEDIMENT
The Editor,
We should not blame those who come in the evenings to make love at the Bar Centre. They obviously want to have babies who will grow up to be lawyers.
Editor’s Note: - Really?
SQUIB
The Editor,
This your edition on the Lagos State Police Commissioner is best sold at Police Stations and not in the court premises.
Editor’s Note: - Good idea!
SQUIB
The Editor,
But for the Case-Law Section, I wouldn’t have bought the Squib this week. I have no interest in reading the views of the man on your cover - the Police Commissioner.
Editor’s Note: - I see!
SQUIB
The Editor,
I want to express my heart-felt gratitude to you for your magazine’s immense contribution to the maintenance of sanity in the judiciary. The Squib is a big check on the abuse and misuse of powers in the profession.
Even your very presence makes people control themselves. When you enter the court, you may not know it, but the atmosphere changes. Also, the other day, you came in to see the DPP; I was there too with a few colleagues. You joined us in waiting but some other people were allowed immediate access to the D.P.P.
After a long while, you got fed up of the situation and walked off in annoyance. Immediately, the lady attending to us rushed in to see the DPP with the alarming news that the SQUIB man was here and had left in annoyance. The DPP asked the lady to quickly bring you back. May God continue to energise you.
Editor’s Note: - And everyone else
THE SECRET IMPEDIMENT
The Editor,
When I read your Learned Squib article. “The Secret Impediment, I looked round the Bar Centre grounds for any sight of the “rubber” you complained about, but I did not see any. However with you now as my guide, I can see quite a lot and your article now makes sense to me. I agree the Bar Centre {Secretariat of NBA Ikeja} needs urgent cleansing.
Editor’s Note: - Quite!
THE SECRET IMPEDIMENT
The Editor,
We should not blame those who come in the evenings to make love at the Bar Centre. They obviously want to have babies who will grow up to be lawyers.
Editor’s Note: - Really?
SQUIB
The Editor,
This your edition on the Lagos State Police Commissioner is best sold at Police Stations and not in the court premises.
Editor’s Note: - Good idea!
SQUIB
The Editor,
But for the Case-Law Section, I wouldn’t have bought the Squib this week. I have no interest in reading the views of the man on your cover - the Police Commissioner.
Editor’s Note: - I see!
SQUIB
The Editor,
I want to express my heart-felt gratitude to you for your magazine’s immense contribution to the maintenance of sanity in the judiciary. The Squib is a big check on the abuse and misuse of powers in the profession.
Even your very presence makes people control themselves. When you enter the court, you may not know it, but the atmosphere changes. Also, the other day, you came in to see the DPP; I was there too with a few colleagues. You joined us in waiting but some other people were allowed immediate access to the D.P.P.
After a long while, you got fed up of the situation and walked off in annoyance. Immediately, the lady attending to us rushed in to see the DPP with the alarming news that the SQUIB man was here and had left in annoyance. The DPP asked the lady to quickly bring you back. May God continue to energise you.
Editor’s Note: - And everyone else
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Vol 8 No 15 28th January 2008
SQUIB
The Editor,
Compliments of the season! It gladdens my heart to know that Squib is now on-line, keep the flag flying.
Editor’s Note: - Thank you. Please keep Squibbing.
CASE LAW
The Editor,
That judgment of Justice Adenike Coker in suit No LD/1164/2006 is very interesting. You should have published it, all at once, not instalmentally as you did. It pained me so much that I couldn’t get the judgment once.
Editor’s Note: - Sorry about that. But the judgment is too long to be published once.
SQUIB
The Editor,
Thanks for your stand on all issues. We are right behind you. Keep up the good fight and make the year hot for those who need the truth.
Editor’s Note: - Sure!
SQUIB
The Editor,
I wonder how you got my e-mail address. I went to ABU Zaria and then Nigerian Law School in 1985. I was called to the New York Bar in 1995, so I did not know how our paths could have crossed. I may have seen the face and the name is definitely familiar but it has been such a long time that I left Nigeria. I have not been to Nigeria for the past 15 years. I have my own practice in New York. I intend to come and visit Nigeria sometimes in 2008 I have looked at your profile and what you are about. I am impressed. Keep up the good work. Regards.
Editor’s Note: - Thank you. Wish you a happy visit home.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Vol 8 No 13 14th January 2008
SQUIB READER’S PAVILION
PHILADELPHIA 9
The Editor,
Thank you for your story on the ‘Philadelphia 9’ - (the Lagos State Magistrates who went off to a Conference in the U.S without the approval of the Chief Judge), but do you know there is partiality in the purported punishment meted out to those magistrates? For example Mrs. Omotosho was among the P9 but she was never mentioned or moved from her court because she is the daughter of Obaseki JSC who was one of the Panel Members trying the Chief Judge in Abuja.
Secondly, look at Mrs. Ladipo who was moved from Tapa to Court 2 Apapa, which is not only a higher court but also made her head over Mrs. Femi Segun because her father was in the same church society with the Chief Judge at Ebute-Ero.
Thirdly, Mrs. Ogala was moved from Ikeja to Lagos, maintaining the same position because her husband is now the Chairman of the Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on the Judiciary.
And, do you know how the Chief Judge got to know about the ‘temporary disappearance’ of the P9 to the U.S? It was Mr. Animashaun the magistrate at the Ministry of Lands who squealed on them.
Editor’s Note-: Wonderful!
FIRST GECKO
The Editor,
I was chatting with you one day when a friend saw us together. After you left, my friend asked me what I was doing with you.
When I said you were my friend she told me “stop deceiving yourself, that Squib man has no friend.” Then I said you were my brother. She greeted that with a look of disbelief but conceded that you may after all have a family.
Editor’s Note: - Who are my brothers and sisters? Geckos!
SQUIB
The Editor,
May God continue to be with you. It’s a very good job you are doing in the judiciary. You tell the truth irrespective of those who are not comfortable with the truth.
Editor’s Note:- Thank you.
JUDGES
The Editor,
My view on your story about the judge who anointed computers with oil is that it’s another proof that Judges are all too human like us, no matter our calling them ‘Lords’ and treating them like gods.
Editor’s Note: - Quite!
RE-ASSIGNMENT BLUES
The Editor,
Legal practice in Lagos State was terrible, the last four months of 2007. Many of us (practicing lawyers) suffered as our cases were trapped in the registry, as they were not re-assigned to new judges. I was one of those especially hit by the incompetence of the authorities in re-assigning cases promptly. What type of Chief Judge is the incumbent? And to think he was once an administrative judge before becoming a chief judge?
My brother, I won’t deceive you, I suffered. Clients dried up and I had to resort to showing the meeting agenda of the NBA Ikeja which listed the issue of the late or even non-reassignment of case files to clients to convince them it was a general problem and which the NBA was tackling.
Editor’s Note: - What a pity! Let’s hope for a better year!
CRUSADE
The Editor,
Your crusade for a better judiciary is a task for all of us. But I believe you are one of the few specially blessed to undertake such challenges, hence my salutation to you. May you go from strength to strength!
Editor’s Note: - Amen.
PHILADELPHIA 9
The Editor,
Thank you for your story on the ‘Philadelphia 9’ - (the Lagos State Magistrates who went off to a Conference in the U.S without the approval of the Chief Judge), but do you know there is partiality in the purported punishment meted out to those magistrates? For example Mrs. Omotosho was among the P9 but she was never mentioned or moved from her court because she is the daughter of Obaseki JSC who was one of the Panel Members trying the Chief Judge in Abuja.
Secondly, look at Mrs. Ladipo who was moved from Tapa to Court 2 Apapa, which is not only a higher court but also made her head over Mrs. Femi Segun because her father was in the same church society with the Chief Judge at Ebute-Ero.
Thirdly, Mrs. Ogala was moved from Ikeja to Lagos, maintaining the same position because her husband is now the Chairman of the Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on the Judiciary.
And, do you know how the Chief Judge got to know about the ‘temporary disappearance’ of the P9 to the U.S? It was Mr. Animashaun the magistrate at the Ministry of Lands who squealed on them.
Editor’s Note-: Wonderful!
FIRST GECKO
The Editor,
I was chatting with you one day when a friend saw us together. After you left, my friend asked me what I was doing with you.
When I said you were my friend she told me “stop deceiving yourself, that Squib man has no friend.” Then I said you were my brother. She greeted that with a look of disbelief but conceded that you may after all have a family.
Editor’s Note: - Who are my brothers and sisters? Geckos!
SQUIB
The Editor,
May God continue to be with you. It’s a very good job you are doing in the judiciary. You tell the truth irrespective of those who are not comfortable with the truth.
Editor’s Note:- Thank you.
JUDGES
The Editor,
My view on your story about the judge who anointed computers with oil is that it’s another proof that Judges are all too human like us, no matter our calling them ‘Lords’ and treating them like gods.
Editor’s Note: - Quite!
RE-ASSIGNMENT BLUES
The Editor,
Legal practice in Lagos State was terrible, the last four months of 2007. Many of us (practicing lawyers) suffered as our cases were trapped in the registry, as they were not re-assigned to new judges. I was one of those especially hit by the incompetence of the authorities in re-assigning cases promptly. What type of Chief Judge is the incumbent? And to think he was once an administrative judge before becoming a chief judge?
My brother, I won’t deceive you, I suffered. Clients dried up and I had to resort to showing the meeting agenda of the NBA Ikeja which listed the issue of the late or even non-reassignment of case files to clients to convince them it was a general problem and which the NBA was tackling.
Editor’s Note: - What a pity! Let’s hope for a better year!
CRUSADE
The Editor,
Your crusade for a better judiciary is a task for all of us. But I believe you are one of the few specially blessed to undertake such challenges, hence my salutation to you. May you go from strength to strength!
Editor’s Note: - Amen.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Vol 8 No 12 10th December 2007
I AM NOT A P9 MEMBER
The Editor,
Why should you list me as a member of the PHILADELPHIA 9? I was never a member of that group and I did not attend any conference in the United States. Although it is true I travelled outside the country, but it was not to the United States.
I want you to correct any impression your story might have created that I was one of those magistrates who were sponsored by the Ministry of Establishment to a Conference in the U. S and who travelled there without clearance from the Chief Judge or that I collected money for the conference and went elsewhere.
It is important you do this because I am careful about my steps in the judiciary. I don’t want any troubles.
Chief Magistrate Ayo Odugbesan
Editor’s Note:- We are sorry if our story upset you. We however wish to say that only a mischief maker can, after reading our story {Vol. 8 No. 11 3 Dec. 2007} conclude you belong to the PHILADELPHIA 9
SQUIB
The Editor,
I want you to put in the Squib Magazine of next week that you came late to court today. Make sure you put it there, that you came late to court for your case. I don’t read your magazine but I will read the one for next week.
Honourable Justice Omolara Adebisi Kayode-Ogunmekan
Editor’s Note:- As the court pleases.
SQUIB
The Editor,
As much as I love your story on how {Barrister} Bisi Ade-Ademuwagun wrongly used a FHR action to detain another lawyer and seek for possession of land, I think your chambers should not have handled the case for Bisi’s victims.
This is because such a story would need following-up. But you can’t do that as you’ve become a counsel in the matter.
Editor’s Note:- You have a point there. However, unorthodox customers deserve unorthodox patrons
SQUIB
The Editor,
Let me thank you specially for the good works of your Magazine in the Lagos Judiciary. Several weeks before your publication came out on the issue of non-reassignment of cases, I made endless trips to the Registry to ask after my cases.
I made no head-way. But within a week of your publication on the matter, the judiciary has assigned eleven of my cases.
When the trouble of my clients became too much when their cases were not re-assigned, I sent them copies of the Squib where your open letter on the matter to the Lagos State House of Assembly was published.
It served to cool them down and made them to understand the predicament we all faced from the present administration. Thank you.
Editor’s Note:- Better thank God!
BISI -ADE-ADEMUWAGUN
The Editor,
After reading your story on Bisi-Ademuwagun. I now ask you, “How did he ever become the chairman of your branch {Ikeja?}
Editor’s Note:- Hope you are not passing insults on the Tigers?
The Editor,
Why should you list me as a member of the PHILADELPHIA 9? I was never a member of that group and I did not attend any conference in the United States. Although it is true I travelled outside the country, but it was not to the United States.
I want you to correct any impression your story might have created that I was one of those magistrates who were sponsored by the Ministry of Establishment to a Conference in the U. S and who travelled there without clearance from the Chief Judge or that I collected money for the conference and went elsewhere.
It is important you do this because I am careful about my steps in the judiciary. I don’t want any troubles.
Chief Magistrate Ayo Odugbesan
Editor’s Note:- We are sorry if our story upset you. We however wish to say that only a mischief maker can, after reading our story {Vol. 8 No. 11 3 Dec. 2007} conclude you belong to the PHILADELPHIA 9
SQUIB
The Editor,
I want you to put in the Squib Magazine of next week that you came late to court today. Make sure you put it there, that you came late to court for your case. I don’t read your magazine but I will read the one for next week.
Honourable Justice Omolara Adebisi Kayode-Ogunmekan
Editor’s Note:- As the court pleases.
SQUIB
The Editor,
As much as I love your story on how {Barrister} Bisi Ade-Ademuwagun wrongly used a FHR action to detain another lawyer and seek for possession of land, I think your chambers should not have handled the case for Bisi’s victims.
This is because such a story would need following-up. But you can’t do that as you’ve become a counsel in the matter.
Editor’s Note:- You have a point there. However, unorthodox customers deserve unorthodox patrons
SQUIB
The Editor,
Let me thank you specially for the good works of your Magazine in the Lagos Judiciary. Several weeks before your publication came out on the issue of non-reassignment of cases, I made endless trips to the Registry to ask after my cases.
I made no head-way. But within a week of your publication on the matter, the judiciary has assigned eleven of my cases.
When the trouble of my clients became too much when their cases were not re-assigned, I sent them copies of the Squib where your open letter on the matter to the Lagos State House of Assembly was published.
It served to cool them down and made them to understand the predicament we all faced from the present administration. Thank you.
Editor’s Note:- Better thank God!
BISI -ADE-ADEMUWAGUN
The Editor,
After reading your story on Bisi-Ademuwagun. I now ask you, “How did he ever become the chairman of your branch {Ikeja?}
Editor’s Note:- Hope you are not passing insults on the Tigers?
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Vol 8 No 11 3rd December 2007
AYO. J
The Editor,
You shouldn’t have published the Story on Justice Ayo because religion is a personal thing. She did her rituals in accordance with her religious beliefs.
But that your story on Justice Ojikutu-Oshode is welcome. How can a judge condescend to the level of slapping a lawyer?
It is highly untoward. No judge could dare do that to me. Only weak and lily-livered lawyers can be so assaulted.
BISI ADE-ADEMUWAGUN
The Editor,
That lawyer detained by another lawyer must be a weakling; if he was strong he wouldn’t have stayed for so long in detention.
BISI ADE-ADEMUWAGUN
The Editor,
Are you sure of what you published about Bisi Ade-Ademuwagun getting a detention order against another lawyer by way of an ex-parte application? If it is true, then it is preferable that the Ikeja Branch of the NBA be shut down?
I said this because Ademuwagun was once the Chairman of the Ikeja Branch! How can some one who is a bar leader do any such thing? And to think that he is a Doctor of Divinity?
That means he has a Phd in Bible Studies and he himself is a pastor. So is he saying that all the four days, the other lawyer was languishing in detention, his {Ademuwagun’s} conscience and Bible did not tell him that his colleague was in such a condition at his instance?
Editor’s Note: - Over to you Dr Bisi Ade-Ademuwagun.
BISI ADE-ADEMUWAGUN
The Editor,
In detaining another person via an ex-parte injunction Bisi Ade-Ademuwagun acted very badly. Where is such done a person’s liberty to be cut without he being heard?
Yet Ademuwagun is a bar leader!
Editor’s Note: - Over to you, Dr Ade-Ademuwagun
BISI ADE-ADEMUWAGUN
The Editor,
I have read the latest Squib edition {Vol. 8 No.10}. I must express my disappointment in Bisi Ade-Ademuwagun for the auties of his chambers. Applying ex-parte in a fundamental right suit for the arrest of another person who is not even a party, is indefensible. Of course it is also indefensible to use a fundamental right action to ask for possession of land.
Ademuwagun’s conduct in the case is simply unbecoming particularly so since he is a past chairman of a branch of the NBA.
Editor’s Note: - Speak on!
SQUIB
The Editor,
There is a Magistrate {name withheld} who has just been posted recently to the Magistrate Court Ebute- Metta. He is not only garrulous, vain glorious abusive but also very corrupt.
He does not approve sureties unless ‘Kola’ as given to him. Ironically the same court used to be known as a decent one when it was presided over by the immediate predecessor of this new horrible Magistrate Squib, please go and investigate and you’ll find out I am not exaggerating in my claims against the corrupt magistrate.
Editor’s Note:- Trust us to dig. But supply more dines. Please.
SQUIB
The Editor,
The Squib is one of its kind. It is unique. I have never seen any publication anywhere like it. But I really want to know whether you are in active legal practice, I mean do you appear before judges? Considering your constant ruffling of feathers in the judiciary, it is easy to guess that they {judges} will gang-up to victimize you.
Editor’s Note:- I can’t complain about victimization from judges because it simply does not exist.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I always hear people say Chief Gani Fawehinmi is a hard, a tough cookie, but take it from me, you are harder than the Chief. We see your Squib, it’s tough and we see you on the television. You are hard!
Editor’s Note:- ‘Haba!’
Prof’s Comment
Complaint against Kembi
BISI ADE-ADEMUWAGUN
The Editor,
I am not surprised and am sure many others will not be. Bisi is very well-known for This kind of practice. Before the new rules, he was an expert in obtaining exparte orders on Writ of Summons without Statement of Claim. He thereafter would go lo sleep for years or may not follow up the case.
My client was once a victim in on oh Bisi's cases. Princess Jegede vs Unknown Persons. I Ie did all he could lo ensure that we did not join the suit by not complying with the new rules. It was before Justice Phillips and later transferred to the court of the late Justice Asiyanbi who eventually struck out the matter after over five adjournments. The parties, including the Claimant -Bisi's client, were never represented before the late Justice Asiyanbi.
My client filed a fresh suit which has not seen the light of the day due to transfer of Judges in the last one year.
It is time lo examine Bisi's sense of justice if he has one. I am sure all the facts would not have been presented to Justice Marsh. The whole purpose of FHR proceedings has been defeated. In some jurisdictions, the lawyer would lose his license to practice. Big shame.
The Editor,
You shouldn’t have published the Story on Justice Ayo because religion is a personal thing. She did her rituals in accordance with her religious beliefs.
But that your story on Justice Ojikutu-Oshode is welcome. How can a judge condescend to the level of slapping a lawyer?
It is highly untoward. No judge could dare do that to me. Only weak and lily-livered lawyers can be so assaulted.
BISI ADE-ADEMUWAGUN
The Editor,
That lawyer detained by another lawyer must be a weakling; if he was strong he wouldn’t have stayed for so long in detention.
BISI ADE-ADEMUWAGUN
The Editor,
Are you sure of what you published about Bisi Ade-Ademuwagun getting a detention order against another lawyer by way of an ex-parte application? If it is true, then it is preferable that the Ikeja Branch of the NBA be shut down?
I said this because Ademuwagun was once the Chairman of the Ikeja Branch! How can some one who is a bar leader do any such thing? And to think that he is a Doctor of Divinity?
That means he has a Phd in Bible Studies and he himself is a pastor. So is he saying that all the four days, the other lawyer was languishing in detention, his {Ademuwagun’s} conscience and Bible did not tell him that his colleague was in such a condition at his instance?
Editor’s Note: - Over to you Dr Bisi Ade-Ademuwagun.
BISI ADE-ADEMUWAGUN
The Editor,
In detaining another person via an ex-parte injunction Bisi Ade-Ademuwagun acted very badly. Where is such done a person’s liberty to be cut without he being heard?
Yet Ademuwagun is a bar leader!
Editor’s Note: - Over to you, Dr Ade-Ademuwagun
BISI ADE-ADEMUWAGUN
The Editor,
I have read the latest Squib edition {Vol. 8 No.10}. I must express my disappointment in Bisi Ade-Ademuwagun for the auties of his chambers. Applying ex-parte in a fundamental right suit for the arrest of another person who is not even a party, is indefensible. Of course it is also indefensible to use a fundamental right action to ask for possession of land.
Ademuwagun’s conduct in the case is simply unbecoming particularly so since he is a past chairman of a branch of the NBA.
Editor’s Note: - Speak on!
SQUIB
The Editor,
There is a Magistrate {name withheld} who has just been posted recently to the Magistrate Court Ebute- Metta. He is not only garrulous, vain glorious abusive but also very corrupt.
He does not approve sureties unless ‘Kola’ as given to him. Ironically the same court used to be known as a decent one when it was presided over by the immediate predecessor of this new horrible Magistrate Squib, please go and investigate and you’ll find out I am not exaggerating in my claims against the corrupt magistrate.
Editor’s Note:- Trust us to dig. But supply more dines. Please.
SQUIB
The Editor,
The Squib is one of its kind. It is unique. I have never seen any publication anywhere like it. But I really want to know whether you are in active legal practice, I mean do you appear before judges? Considering your constant ruffling of feathers in the judiciary, it is easy to guess that they {judges} will gang-up to victimize you.
Editor’s Note:- I can’t complain about victimization from judges because it simply does not exist.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I always hear people say Chief Gani Fawehinmi is a hard, a tough cookie, but take it from me, you are harder than the Chief. We see your Squib, it’s tough and we see you on the television. You are hard!
Editor’s Note:- ‘Haba!’
Prof’s Comment
Complaint against Kembi
BISI ADE-ADEMUWAGUN
The Editor,
I am not surprised and am sure many others will not be. Bisi is very well-known for This kind of practice. Before the new rules, he was an expert in obtaining exparte orders on Writ of Summons without Statement of Claim. He thereafter would go lo sleep for years or may not follow up the case.
My client was once a victim in on oh Bisi's cases. Princess Jegede vs Unknown Persons. I Ie did all he could lo ensure that we did not join the suit by not complying with the new rules. It was before Justice Phillips and later transferred to the court of the late Justice Asiyanbi who eventually struck out the matter after over five adjournments. The parties, including the Claimant -Bisi's client, were never represented before the late Justice Asiyanbi.
My client filed a fresh suit which has not seen the light of the day due to transfer of Judges in the last one year.
It is time lo examine Bisi's sense of justice if he has one. I am sure all the facts would not have been presented to Justice Marsh. The whole purpose of FHR proceedings has been defeated. In some jurisdictions, the lawyer would lose his license to practice. Big shame.
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