The Day I Learned That Law Is Power

  🎓 F rom a Small Shop in Onitsha to the Largest Bar in Africa 🇳🇬⚖️ One ordinary day in the commercial streets of Onitsha, my mother was preparing to travel for her niece’s wedding in Aba. As usual, she left me—just a boy of 11 or 12—in our shop under the care of her manager, Aunty Chika. It was tradition. We always followed our parents to the shop… To learn. To watch. To grow. That day, something happened that changed my life forever. A lawyer who oversaw the building where our shop was located stormed in with thugs. They began ripping out our photocopiers… Dragging out our computers… Tearing down everything we had worked for. I tried to stop them. But what could a skinny 12-year-old boy do against hired thugs? Nothing. Aunty Chika ran off to call Mama’s mentor nearby. She came—camera in hand—and started filming everything. That night, I sat my father down. I asked him, “How could I have stopped them?” He looked me in the eye and said: “If you want to figh...