Surrogates or egg donors are not informed about the life-altering decisions they are taking so they remain ignorant about the long-term consequences and health risks involved.
James, George, and Obi have common tales of urban poverty. Aware of the near impossibility for many young Nigerians to earn a decent wage and the pressure to keep up with global consumerism, operators of surrogacy in Nigeria go for the jugular of vulnerable women, like the ones seated clutching their appointment cards like regular visitors to a hospital.
Surrogates or egg donors are not informed about the life-altering decisions they are taking so they remain ignorant about the long-term consequences and health risks involved.
I thank the Hon. Justice M.L. Abimbola, the Chief Judge of Oyo State for the gracious invitation extended to me to attend and deliver a Speech at this sad Memorial Special Court Session in honour of our beloved learned friend Mr. Emmanuel Abiodun Esq. He passed away most tragically on Wednesday December 23, 2020. His death was inexpedient. My Speech is titled: A Lamentation.
I am constrained to confess that, of all the High Court Session Addresses I have delivered since I was decorated with the prestigious rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria 40 years ago “id est”: on March 5, 1981, today’s lamentation is the most excruciating for me. Thus, unlike William Shakespeare, I have not come to bury Abiodun not to praise him, rather I have come to praise him not to bury him, because he will forever remain with us in the annals of the legal history of Nigeria as a most learned, brilliant, respected, respectable, reputable and, above all, despite all the problems of corruption that plag