By Abdulwahab Abdulah

Contrary to reports that the late human rights lawyer, Fred Agbaje died in London, it was clarified, yesterday, that he breath his last at the University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba, Lagos after a battle with an undisclosed ailment.

An official statement from his law chambers, signed by Prince Kennedy U. Osunwa and Adeniyi Pokanu, while regretting the untimely death of their principal, said that the family will soon come out with programs for his burial rites.

The lawyers described him as “resolute defender of the oppressed, a law lord, legal authority of our time and a legal colossus has passed unto glory leaving a yarning gap to be filled in the legal jurisprudence. A rare gem is gone.”

It stated: “We regret to officially announce the death of our principal-in-chambers, Fred Agbaje Esq. who passed on to glory at about 8.00 am on Saturday, 26, November, 2016, at the University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba, Lagos.”