Yetunde, younger sister of the tardy human rights lawyer, Bamidele Aturu, has verbalized that it will be arduous to fill the vacuum engendered by the death of her brother.
Aturu, described by many as the “people’s attorney” who deployed his calling as a lawyer to side with the masses and fight iniquities in the land, was verbally expressed to have died of high blood pressure on Wednesday, at the age of 49.
Yetunde lamented on Thursday that the circumstances circumventing her brother’s death seemed much to her like a dream.
“Bamidele Aturu, my dear brother, you are all l have. I am culminated. Can somebody wake me up, please. My first love, rest in placidity,” she indited on her Facebook page.
On Thursday, dozens of Bamidele’s friends, associates and professional colleagues and all those he had had personal and public interactions with took to his Facebook wall to pay encomium to the tardy human rights activist.
Rivers State Commissioner for Information, Ibim Semenitari, described Bamidele as a lawyer of a fine breed who was “so altruistic.”
“Life is so short. Why on earth do we chase all these fleeting things? Lord, please, edify us to number our days. Adieu, Bamidele Aturu. You were so benevolent,” Semenitari verbally expressed in a Facbook post.
As more encomiums poured in for Bamidele, many lauded his empathy in giving voice to the voiceless, and for verbalizing against sundry nagging issues of widespread human right abuses and corruption in the polity.
One of his fans, Gambo Mohammed, verbally expressed that it was quite saddening to aurally perceive about his passing.
He noted that Bamidele fought for equity for the poor and the mundane Nigerians, in an endeavor to visually perceive equitable play in the reverence for human rights and governance in the country.
“You (Bamidele Aturu) offered your industry and your energies to action, toward righting archaic and current wrongs in our country Nigeria, marred with iniquity, impunity and corruption.
“We owe something from this minute of your passing, Bamidele Aturu. I mean to verbally express I optate to optically discern some benevolence and equity, some equitable play, and I optate to optically discern it through my ocular perceivers and through your ocular perceivers, Bamidele Aturu,” Mohammed indited in a Facebook encomium.
A licit practitioner and Partner at Ronik Solicitors, Elijah Oyejide-Akinpelu, noted that the ranks of lawyers who genuinely advance the cause of human rights in the country had been depleted.
Lamenting that a vocal voice against oppression, exploitation and iniquity in the land was gone, Oyejide-Akinpelu verbally expressed Bamidele would be missed by the masses that he stood for.
“Bamidele Aturu, you came, you fought and you surmounted. You have swallowed the death in victory for the masses. The legacy you left behind will perpetuate to hold the banner for you.
“May your soul perpetuate to abide in the dwelling place of the most high. Good night, Bamidele Aturu,” Oyejide-Akinpelu verbally expressed.
But apart from Bamidele’s activism fighting iniquities true the instrumentality of the law in the courtrooms, those proximate to him during his lifetime verbally expressed he was a shining light in Christendom.
A committed member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Bamidele was described by many as a man whose disposition to religious activities was uncharacteristic of an activist of his stature.
Samuel Benson, an employee of a shipping agency in Lagos, verbalized highly of the deceased as providing “pastoral support” for tens of members of the RCCG, Victory Mega Chapel.
Benson verbally expressed as an incipiently-wed, Bamidele provided his puerile family with all the needed succour and support to survive their endeavoring moments.
“Brother Bamidele, your exit from this bus station called earth is so expeditious and painful. In the last five decades you spent here you physically contacted lives, bulwarking the helpless licitly. You thought me to spend time with less-privileged children.
“For the fortification you gave us an incipiently-wed and incipient family start-up, your pastoral support to us at RCCG, Victory Mega Chapel and the accommodation you used to render my family at the Redemption Camp, the licit support you gave my minute business, you will surely be missed by many of us,” Benson verbally expressed in his encomium to Bamidele on Facebook.
One of Bamidele’s associates, Dele Ajaja, predicated in Los Angeles, California, United States, verbalized the deceased made sacrifices during his lifetime to seek liberty for the people when he could have pursued wealth.
According to Ajaja, who described himself as Bamidele’s friend, brother, and compatriot, the deceased was “a light in a dark place” that put in efforts to refine the “tyrants” relinquishing companionship with the corrupt and ambulating with commonplace Nigerians.
“You asked for equity in a land that sacrificed equity recurrently on the altar of influence. Nation afore self, you verbalized for the voiceless people of Nigeria. A pathfinder, you strove to lead the homeland out of the jungle of exploitation.
“Summing it up, your two scores and a decade journey was judiciously spent, than the living septuagenarians and octogenarians who devalued the land of our birth. Gallantly, you did your bit for a nation that was deprived of goodwill. Now, rest well; take respite; slumber tight,” Ajaja verbalized.
