A 91-year-old former judge in Ogun State, Justice Gabsiyu Bakre (retd.), tells DAUD OLATUNJI about his youthful years, careers on the bench and life in general
At a point, I taught Governor Razaki tennis in Ibadan. One day he told me he wanted to make me a Permanent Secretary, but I said I didn’t want to be a Permanent Secretary; that I preferred to become a judge. He couldn’t jump over my boss and make me a judge. So, he listed six of us, with my boss at number three and me at number four. God answered my prayers, I was appointed a judge on December 28, 1988. I served for 11 years before retiring about 23 years ago.
God did it, the Ministry of Education arranged for her to go overseas and my late friend and best man, the late Chief Edward Adigun, and I arranged to get a passport. At that time, we didn’t need a visa to visit Britain. As a Muslim, your religion permits you marry to more than one wife. Why did you choose to be a monogamous?
My father was an extreme polygamist. I know that he had more than 20 wives. By the time he died in 1960, he had got 19 children from 10 women. That record is not likely to be broken by any of us, because I had only one wife; she passed on a year ago, and since she passed on, I have not thought of another marriage. But I think we should have a rethink, man is born polygamous.I get really bothered when I hear people saying some judges are corrupt. It is unfortunate.
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