Gbenga Toyosi Olawepo, human rights activist and businessman, 52, June 28. Born in Yelwa, Yauri, Kebbi State, he was educated at Kwara College of Technology, University of Lagos and University of Buckingham. The name Olawepo first made the headlines when as an anti-apartheid activist, he and three other students’ leaders of the University of Lagos were clamped into the over-crowded Nigeria Police cell in April 1989 after an anti apartheid protest. He was a member of the Local Organising Committee of the ‘’Massive Freedom at 70 Nelson Mandela Concert’’ held at the University Lagos Nigeria. His involvement in the radical movement became deepened when he was elected Public Relations Officer of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, 1988. In 1989, he was part of the leadership of the anti-SAP and pro-democracy uprising organised by NANS.

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