By Emma Obe
The body of the Chairman of the Rivers State Law Revision Committee, Hon. Justice Tayo Kilegbu Osu (rtd), has been laid to rest at his hometown, Joinkrama(3) in the Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Justice Osu, who retired as a High Court judge from the services of Rivers State Government in 2007, died at the age of 85 after a brief illness.
Family members, who relieved their time with him, described him as a man of peace who built bridges of unity among family members, communities, and ethnic groups within the state.
His eldest son, Mr. Ukari Osu said his late father showed love and peace where ever he had found himself, noting that he dedicated his entire life to the service of God and the state, who believed in using education as a tool for development.
He said it was because of the late judges, incorruptibility that the state government found him worthy to give further service to the state, which saw him appointed as Chairman of the Law Review Committee, a committee he headed until he died.
Before being appointed a judge, the late Osu had a stint in politics, a vocation that some of his children, Mrs. Zakien Osu Christopher, and others had since taken to.
Mrs. Osu Christopher, wife of a Bayelsa-based publisher of Niger Delta New Link described her late father as a giver, helper to humanity as his generosity to fellow men was unimaginable.
“You deprived yourself of good things in life just help to humanity. You believed that living a luxurious life was a waste of money when that money could be used to help the needy around you. You lived a modest life. It is hard to believe that you are gone,” she said.”
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His son-in-law, Mr. Christopher, said Justice Osu’s exit had created an irreplaceable vacuum for him personally, the deceased related well with all classes of people, especially indigent people.
The burial attracted personalities from Rivers and Bayelsa States. They included Dr. Bertola , Chairman, Ekeremor Local Government, Executive Secretary, Bayelsa State Students Loans Board, Dr. Mike Amaegberi, former member Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Hon. Amalanyo Yousuo and a large entourage from Bayelsa state. Others were, Chairman of Ahoada West Local Government, Hon Hope Ikiriko, Awoli Miller, and Asita . O. Asita, Chairman of the Board of NIMASA.
Hon Justice Tayo Kilegbu Osu was born in 1935 at Odawu, Joinkrama 3 in Engenni ethnic nationality in Ahoada West LGA of Rivers state to a peasant family. He died on 27 January 2021.
