Baderinwa was reportedly shot dead close to his residence in Mowe, Ogun State, on December 22.
The development came just as the family of a late female Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mrs. Sylvia Shinaba, announced the deceased‘s burial plans.
Shinaba drowned last Thursday at Oniru Beach, Lagos, while trying to save her receptionist, Ms. Victoria Odunaiya, who was struggling with the waves. They had both gone for Shinaba’s chambers’ end-of-year party.
Our correspondents gathered that Bolarinwa’s assailants drove his car away. The Lagos Branch of the NBA through its chairman, Mr. Chijioke Okoli, has called for investigation into his death, saying his assassination signified ”the total collapse of the security apparatus of the Nigerian State.”
Shinaba‘s family said burial arrangements for the deceased SAN would begin on December 30 with a Service of Songs while lying in state and interment will hold on December 31.
Meanwhile, prominent lawyers, including Mr. Emeka Ngige(SAN), Mr. Femi Falana, Prof Chidi Odinkalu, Ms. Ayo Obe, Carol Ajie, and Mrs. Stella Ugboma, have extolled the virtues of Shinaba, saying that her demise was a great loss to the legal profession.
Ngige said, “I knew Sylvia Shinaba (nee Ekpo) when she was a junior counsel with Kehinde Sofola Chambers in the mid 80s. She was a real tiger at the Bar, a very brilliant lawyer, very erudite and yet very friendly. She brooked no nonsense and was an epitome of discipline. It was no wonder she later became the chairperson of FIDA Nigeria.”
For Falana, “The deceased was a brilliant lawyer. It is a big shame that on a yearly basis people get drowned on Lagos beaches due to failure of government to provide lifesaving jackets. I hope that the NBA will take advantage of this unfortunate incident to demand that all the beaches in the country are equipped with lifesaving jackets.”
Obe, who is a former President of Civil Liberties Organisations, said, “I remember Shinaba from her early days in practice, starting out with Kehinde Sofola and Co. I remember her darling little daughter whose birth came just soon enough after mine for us to exchange tips. We are all so very sad but what a noble end.”
Ajie said, “The sad news has just been broken to me by a colleague. She (Sylvia) was a rare breed, brilliant, dedicated, committed learned friend. Even in death, she took the risk to help humanity. She was a shining legal star and held her own particularly as a distinguished member of the Census Tribunal, Abuja where she gave rulings that the brightest of lawyers found unimpeachable.”
The International President of FIDA, Mrs. Stella Ugboma, said Shinaba‘s death was a sad way to end the year, adding that the deceased was a lawyer who handled many probono cases.
Source:punchng.com
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