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Nigeria’s civil society leader Innocent Chukwuma is dead
By Dayo Badmus,
Innocent Chukwuma has died Saturday evening, April 3 in Lagos.
He died at age 55 after he was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia, an aggressive cancer of the blood.
“With profound shock & sadness, I regret to inform you that Innocent Chukwuma passed away a few hours ago, in the evening of April 3. May his soul rest in peace,”
announced Edetaen Ojo, a frontline freedom of expression advocate and Executive Director of the Media Rights Agenda, who was a friend of Mr Chukwuma.
Before his death, Chukwuma came to public attention first as a student union activist at the University of Nigeria, where he read religious studies in the early eighties when Nigerian students led relentless campaigns against military autocracy.
The former chairman of the Nigeria Human Rights Commission said Chukwuma’s diagnosis only came through Friday night, and though he was booked to begin chemotherapy sessions Saturday night, Mr. Odinkalu remarked that his friend “passed before the needle could be inserted.”
