18/10/2024
IBOM 2024 COUNTDOWN
DAY 17
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JUSTICE EGBERT UDO UDOMA
Sir Egbert Udo Udoma, KBE, one of Nigeria’s founding fathers and top jurists, was born in Akwa Ibom State on June 21, 1917. He went from a humble beginning to become a Supreme Court justice and Uganda’s chief justice from 1963 to 1969. His mum, Adiaha Edem Udo Udoma, a women’s leader (featured on Day 29), and around 400 women in Opobo Division were massacred by colonial troops and police in 1929 during Aba Women's Riot, a protest to end women’s taxation.
Young Udoma attended Methodist College, Uzuakoli, then went to Trinity College, Dublin (TCD) with the backing of the Ibibio Union (featured on Day 28), which he later led. First black African to get PhD in Law from Oxford; knighted by Queen Elizabeth; was a Methodist and Knight of John Wesley. He returned to Nigeria to practice law in the 1940s but was influenced by nationalist ideas.
He served 13 years on Nigeria’s Supreme Court and was a member of the federal House of Representatives for the United National Independence Party and had pushed for the creation of Calabar/Ogoja/Rivers state.
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Pharm. Felix Ndiukwu
PSN National Publicity Secretary
Chairman CPC Publicity Subcommittee