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Emulate Gani’s spirit of generosity, don urges lawyers, othersFormer Dean of the Faculty of Law, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Prof. Ademola Popoola, has tasked lawyers and other well-placed Nigerians to use their wealth and positions to uplift and defend the poor and needy.
The renowned professor of international law made the call yesterday at the 2014 Gani Fawehinmi Scholarship Awards in Lagos, where he was the guest speaker.
Speaking on the theme, “The Law, the Lawyer and the Public Spirit: Gani Fawehinmi in Historical Perspective,” he said the late fiery rights activist committed his entire life to fighting for the people and the common good of the country.
“Chief Gani Fawehinmi”, he said, “had a passion for education as he had for law. In his lifetime, he meant many things to many people. Even in death, memory of him and his good deeds is indelibly etched in the hearts of his teeming compatriots, particularly the down-trodden and oppressed, whose lives he had touched in a lasting and remarkable way.”
Describing the scholarship awards as “a lasting testament to (Gani’s) public-spiritedness”, Popoola said: “Anyone who has the interest of Nigeria at heart cannot but share Gani’s passion for education as the bedrock of sustainable national development, the pivot of progress.”
Identifying corruption as the cause of the decline in the nation’s education sector, he feared that the development portended a grave danger for the country’s future.
Also speaking, the Chairman of Gani Fawehinmi Scholarship Awards Board, Dr. Dipo Fashina, said 40 students from all parts of the country benefitted from the programme this year on merit.
The scholarship, he said, was a call on Nigerians to dedicate themselves to the ideals of societal good Gani lived and died for.
Mohammed Fawehinmi, the first son of the late rights lawyer, however, said the event reminded him of his father’s inimitable large-heartedness and generosity.
A total of N4 million, it was gathered, went into the scholarship awards this year, with each beneficiary going home with N100,000.
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