Along with the likes of the Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, Fawehinmi became the loud conscience of 150 million people, a man for whom silence was never an option, and for whom there were no tyrants too big to be challenged. For over three decades he endured imprisonment, harassment and the climate of assassination created by the successive military regimes in battling causes which, even though they did not always succeed against totalitarian governments who controlled the organs of the law, served to focus national and international attention. He also took on the villainy and corruption of civilian governments, highlighting their illegitimate means of coming to power.
Excerpt from a blog post about Gani Fawehinmi
Also, read the following:
He was rich, so he wasn't doing it for the money.
He was by all means a brilliant Lawyer. They couldn't deny him the SAN forever.
It not for him , Moshood Abiola will probably have abandoned the June 12 struggle.
He got the respect of even the Military Tyrants more than any other Nigerian human rights activist.
He was never tainted in any scandal.
Surely, Nigeria will miss this man!
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