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Throughout his youth, he was very much encouraged by a mother who wanted him to further his studies and a father who wanted him to become a lawyer.

His mother sold some land to raise money for him to study law in England.

Realizing that “ time is money ”, the former absentee student became a diligent and disciplined scholar in law who after eighteen months at Lincoln ’ s Inn London and at the youthful age of 21, was called to the English Bar in 1959.

It was also during his student days in London that he developed his voracious appetite for reading which till today is his favourite pastime.