Popular Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Mr. Bamidele Aturu,
is dead. The vibrant lawyer, who rescued the comic actor Baba Suwe during his
ordeal with NDLEA, died of high blood pressure on Wednesday.
Aturu, aged 49, was reportedly rushed to the Lagos State
University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja in the early hours of Wednesday but he was
confirmed dead by medical personnel later in the day.
Commenting on the sad incident, Festus Keyamo, said he
received the news as a shock. “I just heard it but I am still trying to
confirm; I was told he died of high blood pressure-related ailment. It is sad
and I’m still in shock,” he said.
Another lawyer, Mr. Fred Agbaje said he was speechless. A
legal luminary, Chief Anthony Idigbe, SAN, who told Punch that he had yet to confirm
the death, said he wished it was not true.
More lawyers and rights activists have expressed shock over
the death of the human rights lawyer.
Former Chairman of Nigerian Bar Association, Ikeja branch,
Mr. Monday Ubani, who sounded too shocked to talk, described Aturu as the best
Nigerian, “whose activism was not targeted at attracting public attention or
government’s appointment.”
May his soul rest in peace. Amen!
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