During the late activist’s storied career, he was incarcerated in both police cells and prisons on numerous occasions as he stood up to the injustice of the draconian rule of many of the country’s military rulers. As far back as 1969, Fawehinmi was locked up at the Police Headquarters, Kaduna, the Jos Police Station, the Ilorin Police Station and the Police Headquarters, Lagos, where he was also detained twice in 1972. All these were under the regime of of General Yakubu Gowon.
Later in 1978, under the regime of General Olusegun Obasanjo, he was detained at the C. I. D. Alagbon, Lagos, the Inter-Centre Detention Outpost, Lagos and the Ikoyi Police Station. In 1987, when General Ibrahim Babangida was Head of State, Fawehinmi was held at Panti Police Station, Lagos. He was later a guest thrice the following year when he was also detained at the Police Station Ikeja and twice again in 1989.
After that, the Ikoyi Police Station hosted him in 1989, the year he was also held at the State Security Services (SSS) Cell in Maiduguri. The State Security Services (SSS) Cell Awolowo Road, Ikoyi was also a destination in 1991, the C. I. D. Police Station Ikoyi in 1992 and the Police Station Wuse Abuja later in ’92.
He was at the Inter-Centre Cell, Lagos, the State Security Services (SSS) Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, the C. I. D. Police Station Ikoyi, the Police Station Wuse Abuja and the Police Headquarters, Abuja, all in 1993. The next year under the rule of Nigeria’s infamous goggled general, he was taken to the Panti Police Station, Lagos and the F. I. I. B. Alagbon, Ikoyi, Lagos.
The next year, he twice returned to the Panti Police Station, Lagos, which had now become a familiar destination before exploring the novelty of the State Security Services Shangisha Cell Lagos, a place he later went to the next year.
According to his personal website, in all these arrests and detentions, he was treated sometimes cruelly, sometimes crudely and sometimes with some civility.
But apart from detentions in police stations, he was occasional remanded in prisons across the country. These include;
Kaduna Prison, 1969
Gombe Prison, 1969 - 1970
Ikoyi Prison, 1978
Gashua Prison, 1989
Nigerian Prison Ikoyi, 1990
Nigerian Prison Kuje, 1992
Nigerian Prison Kuje, 1993 and
Nigerian Prison, Bauchi 1996.
The above statistics highlight the heavy price the lawyer cum activist paid in his desire to rid the Nigerian system of lawlessness which has pervaded the country over time. Paying the price ensures his name would be immortalised in the hearts of Nigerians for generations to come.
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