He joined his ancestors at 54 last week after battling that evil deposit called sickle cell anemia.
My friend and Baba-Panya was good man, full of love and spirit for his people. He believed that the land grab through the Murtala-Obasanjo administration’s Decree No.6 of 1976 was a blight on the rights and welfare of his people. Baba-Panya was persuaded that the compensation and resettlement advertised by that administration some 47 years ago was a fraud. But he never resorted to self-help. He, like the late Gani Fawehinmi believed in the power of the Courts as the last hope of the common man.
The Court had on January 15, 2018 declared that persistent denial and refusal of past and current presidents to so appoint an indigene of FCT Abuja as a minister in the Federal Executive Council since May 1999 was tantamount to a gross violation of the said constitutional right against discrimination. Accordingly, the Court directed the President to immediately make the said appointment.
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