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Lagos law school would have been turned into a campus hotel — Falana

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Femi Falana, a human rights lawyer, has described how he prevented the Lagos Law School from being converted into a hotel during the military era.

Falana stated this when speaking in support of the Nigerian Law School’s expansion into new campuses.

The Senior Advocate of Nigeria spoke before the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, chaired by Senator Opeyemi Bamidele.

He stated that he was able to halt the decision to convert the facility into a hotel by obtaining a court injunction.

He said: “It is important to clarify certain fact: the Council of Legal Education Act was enacted in 1962 for the creation of one Law School.

“Nowhere in the Act that it was ever thought that we are going to have a multi-campus institution.

“It is important for our colleagues to realise that in 1999, we had six batches of students who had no place to go.

“They contacted me and I had to go to court.

“The Law Building of the Law School in Lagos had already been sold to a businessman who wanted to turn it into a hotel when the school moved to Abuja.

“It was only one campus.

“Not until I went to court and we got an injunction restraining the government from selling the Law School in Lagos.

“When the (former President Olusegun) Obasanjo regime came on board, we now thought of what to do.

“That instead of having two campuses, why not make it a multi-campus so that we won’t create another problem asking everybody to come to Lagos or go to Abuja and that was how we have a multi-campus Law School.

“It was not the idea of the Council of Legal Education.

“It was done by circumstances.”

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