By Owei Lakemfa
NO two other judges in Nigeria have stood and fought jointly for justice, including taking military dictatorship head-on, like Justices Yaya Abiodun Olatunde Jinadu and Isiaka Isola Oluwa. They believed that a judge should not only be upright and fearlessly dispense justice, but should not be answerable to administrative powers more so when there is an inherent right of appeal up to the Supreme Court.
They, therefore, did not hesitate on a number of occasions to jointly take on the Chief Judge of the Lagos State when they thought he erred. Both men had been fortified for the roles they came to play. Oluwa had attended the School of Agriculture, Samaru-Zaria and lectured in the University of Ibadan in 1949, and in his alma mata as well as worked as extension manager in the Zaria Province before going to read law at Lincoln’s Inn, London. He was called to the Bar in 1957 at 39.
So his was a change of profession and must have come at great cost with his having…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
