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Born on February 21, 1969 while his activist father, Chief Gani Fawehinmi , was in detention, Mohammed Fawehinmi originally planned to join the Nigerian Army and rise to the position of general; but this was not to be.
“When I was 14, we were given forms in school for the Nigerian Defence Academy. I hurriedly filled mine and took it to my father for him to sign; I never knew I had courted trouble. Till he died, I don’t think he had ever been that angry. He said I wanted to go and join the people that were throwing him in jail all the time. He said I wanted to join those who wanted to kill him. He said that it was better he killed me before I joined his enemies.
The young lawyer had already begun stepping into his father’s shoes as is very common with many lawyers. However, he was dealt a devastating blow by the vicissitudes of fate in the evening of September 23, 2003 when he had an accident that would damage his spinal cord and render him wheelchair-bound for the rest of his life.
Mohammed stated that he was first rushed to a hospital at Ajao Estate but was rejected and he was taken to Maryland Specialist Hospital where he was advised to go to the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi from where he was flown to the UK two days later.
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