Hungarian born British novelist, Arthur Koestler, wrote in his 1950 epic, The God That Failed, “Adjustment to a deformed society creates deformed individuals.”
Those were words from Koestler’s outpouring of frustration at the ways of the German Communist Party.
Like Koestler, the life of Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), saw a terrific outpouring of irritation with the injustices of what he considered a soulless society. He applied judicial activism to try to find a cure for the soulless clime he found himself. This he did until Saturday, September 5, when he died of brain cancer at a London hospital, more than three years after he had been battling the terminal ailment.
But Fawehinmi, who was awarded Senior Advocate of the Masses (SAM) by those for whom he meant final hope – ordinary people – long before he bagged SAN, left some unfinished businesses.
He never saw the end of his suit against the appointment of Mrs. Farida Waziri as chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Only last week, Fawehinmi filed an appeal at the Court of Appeal in Abuja to challenge the ruling of a Federal High Court, which struck out his case for lack of locus standi to sue over the EFCC chairman’s appointment. His grouse was that Waziri had been appointed contrary to the provisions of the EFCC Act.
The departed legal luminary also has pending in court his suit opposing the impeachment in 2007 of then Lagos State Deputy Governor, Femi Pedro. Fawehinmi believed the deputy governor had been impeached after his resignation, an action not supported by law.
He was also working on an author biography, which, as he confided in some friends, was a baby he had hoped to nurture to maturity in his lifetime. That, quite painfully, was not to be before he succumbed to death on Saturday.
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