Solomon Adun Asemota
Solomon Adun Asemota SAN (born December 8, 1938) is a Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist. He is the founder and principal partner of the law firm of Solomon Asemota & Co. He became a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) in 1986. Early life and education Solomon Adun Asemota was born on December 8, 1938, in Benin City, the capital of Edo State, Southern Nigeria. His early formal education began in 1945 at St. Luke School, Jos, before he completed his secondary school education in 1948 at Immaculate Conception College, Benin City. He attended Southern Police College, Ikeja, Lagos (1959–1960) (Cadet Sub-Inspectors’ Course) before going to Wakefield Police College, Yorkshire, England, in 1962 for Advanced Police Training and Scottish Police College, Kincardine, Scotland, in 1969 for Senior Officers Training in organisation and management. He attended the University of Lagos between 1964 and 1969, where he obtained his Bachelor of Law (Honours) degree in 1969. In 1970, he was called to bar and became a barrister at Law after completing his studies at the Nigerian Law School. Career The Nigerian Police Force He was enlisted in the Nigerian Police Force as a Cadet Sub-Inspector: (course no. 6) in 1959. After training, he was posted to Ikeja Province where he served first as prosecutor at the Chief Magistrate's Court, Ikeja, in Chief Magistrate Mason Begho's Court. Later, he was a course officer at Man O’ War Bay in Victoria Cameroons, 1961. He then became a prosecutor, Chief Magistrate's Court Sapele in Chief Magistrates Olayinka Odumosu and Sikiru Abina Courts, as they then were, in 1961, before becoming Inspector, Administration, then Second-in-Command Traffic Division, and later Crime Branch at the Ikeja Provincial Police Department, also in 1961. In 1962, he was promoted to the rank of an Assistant Superintendent of Police, and designated Chief Officer Local Government Police Ondo North (Comprising, Ekiti, Akoko, and Owo Divisions, which now constitute about half of Ondo State), where he performed duties of Divisional Police Officer, in charge of 800 L.S. policemen and 26 police stations. He was seconded (for 6 months in 1963) to the United Nations Operation (ONUC) in the Congo, now Zaire. He served in Leopoldville now Kinshasa, and later as Second-in-Command (Police) at Luluaburg now Katanga. He became the Aide-de-Camp to the First Governor of the Midwest Region, Chief Jereton Mariere 1963 to 1964. Later, she left for the Southern Police College in Ikeja and became the Course Officer, cadet sub-inspector, and Sergeants promotion courses at the Advanced Training Wing. 1964–1966 One of his students, Ibrahim Coomassie later became the Inspector General of Police, while five others got to the rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGs). He was the Second-in-Command 1966–1968 at the National Bureau of the Interpol, Central C.I.D. Alagbon Close, Ikoyi, Lagos, and was, at one time, the Investigator attached to Tribunals of Inquiry into E.C.N. and the Ports Authority. He was promoted to the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police and was a member of the Nigeria Police