F.O.M. Atake

**Franklin Oritse-Mueyiwa Atake** (6 ga Mayu 1926 - 1 ga Maris 2003) wanda aka fi sani da sunansa **FOM Atake** ya kasance lauyan Najeriya kuma Sanata na Tarayyar Najeriya daga 1979 zuwa 1983 a lokacin Jamhuriyar Najeriya ta Biyu. 

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi Franklin Atake a ranar 6 ga Mayu 1926 a Sapele, wani gari a cikin mulkin mallaka na Burtaniya na Kudancin Najeriya . Ya sami ilimi a Makarantar Baptist, Sapele, inda ya yi fice a matsayin mawaƙa. Bugu da ƙari, ya halarci Makarantar Mishan ta Ikilisiyar St. Luke, wanda kuma yake a Sapele . Franklin Atake ya sami karatun sakandare a Makarantar Ibadan Grammar School . A makarantar Ibadan Grammar, Franklin Atake ya kasance mai ƙwarewa sosai a cikin Latin kuma sau da yawa yana amfani da kalmomin Latin ko jimloli a makaranta a cikin tattaunawar yau da kullun. A sakamakon haka, an ba shi lakabi: "Atakurus Esse". Duk lokacin da aka kira shi "Atakurus Esse", ya amsa: "Allah ya albarkace ku ɗan'uwana". Atake ya wuce daga Ibadan Grammar School tare da cirewa daga London Matriculation.Bayan haka, ya yi aiki a Ma'aikatar Baitulmalin a Legas har zuwa 1951. A shekara ta 1951, ya tafi Ingila don nazarin doka. Ya yi karatun shari'a a Jami'ar London da kuma Inns of Court School of Law, London. An kira shi zuwa Bar na Ingilishi a ranar 18 ga Mayu 1954 ta Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn . A watan Yunin shekara ta 1954, ya dawo Najeriya. Ya yi rajista a Najeriya a matsayin Barrister da Solicitor a ranar Jumma'a 16 ga Yuni 1954. Don haka, ya sanya shi mutum ɗari huɗu da bakwai (417th) don yin hakan a cikin jerin mutanen da suka yi rajista don yin aiki a Najeriya.

Bayan ya yi rajista don yin aiki a matsayin lauya a Najeriya, Atake ya kafa aikin lauya a Sapele da Warri. Bayan 'yan shekaru a aiki a cikin shekarun 1950, ya zaɓi Bench na Magisterial a cikin mulkin mallaka na Burtaniya na Legas . 

## A matsayina na majistare
A shekara ta 1957, an nada shi majistare a yankin Birtaniya na Legas . Ya zauna a cikin abin da aka fi sani da Kotun Tapa a Legas. A matsayinsa na majistare, Franklin Atake ya kula da shari'o'i da yawa kuma ya zama sananne ga saurin da kuma adalci wanda ya magance shari'o-rikicen da suka zo gabansa. Ba tare da wani lokaci ba Babban Alkalin Birtaniya na Legas da Kudancin Kamaru, Mai Girma Sir Clement Nageon De Lestang, CJ, ya sauya shi na ɗan lokaci zuwa Kamaru don magance manyan shari'o'i. A lokacin da ya dawo daga Kamaru, an ɗaga shi zuwa matsayin Babban Majalisa a shekarar 1959. 

Atake ya kula da shari'o'i da yawa a matsayin Alkalin, amma cajin No. 28175/60 - 'yan sanda v. AK-N-, AK-NS-L; A-L-B da Ors. ana yawan ambaton shi. Wannan lamari ne na taron da ba bisa ka'ida ba daga dalibai a Kwalejin Jami'ar, Ibadan wadanda suka shirya zanga-zanga a Legas a ranar 28 ga Nuwamba 1960 a Tafawa Balewa Square . Dalibai suna nuna rashin amincewa da yarjejeniyar tsaro da Najeriya za ta shiga tare da Biritaniya. Masu zanga-zangar sun kasance ba su da iko kuma ɗaliban da suka yi tsayayya da 'yan sanda masu yaki da tarzoma sun yi tsalle a kan shinge zuwa cikin gine-ginen majalisa suna lalata mafi yawan kayan aiki kuma suna doke duk wanda ke gani. Wasu fitattun 'yan majalisa kamar Cif Festus Okotie-Eboh (Ministan Kudi na Tarayya) da Cif T. O. S. Benson (Ministan Bayanai na Tarayya). Messrs Adewale Thompson, A K I Makanju, Aliyi Ekineh, Sobo Sowemimo da wasu sun yi aiki ga ɗalibai. Mai ba da shawara na tsaro, a wannan yanayin, ya shawarci abokan cinikin su, ɗalibai, da su nemi laifi da fatan cewa za su shawo kan Alkalin, Bautarsa, Franklin Atake kada su yanke hukuncin ɗaurin kurkuku tunda yawancin ɗalibai suna cikin shekara ta ƙarshe kuma ɗaurin kurkukun zai lalata damar su na kammala karatunsu gaba ɗaya. Mista Adewale Thompson, bayan ya yi jawabi ga kotun game da kurkuku mai lahani zai haifar da rayuwar ɗaliban kuma ɗaliban ba su da lahani, Franklin Atake ya yi Allah wadai da aikin ɗaliban kuma ya yarda da rokon lauya don yin taka tsantsan kuma ya sallame su, ya kara da cewa ya kamata a ɗaure su su kasance masu halin kirki na watanni goma sha biyu. Ya ce Mista Mai Shari'a Adewale Thompson ya rubuta a 1991 a cikin littafinsa Reminiscences At The Bar a 65: "Mun shawarci dalibai da su nemi laifi don in iya yin magana da kotun a Allocutus a karkashin sashi na 450 na Dokar Shari'a, ina neman majistare ya yi amfani da hankalinsa don ya kori tuhumar saboda wahalar da yanke hukunci zai haifar da aikin daliban da ke cikin shekara ta ƙarshe a Kwalejin Jami'ar. Wannan hankali ya haɗa da shawarar majistare don yanke hukunci, wanda ba zai iya yin kira ba saboda haka caca da al'umma gaba ɗaya ba.Tare da kirkirar Yankin Tsakiyar Yamma, Najeriya a 1963, Franklin Atake ya bar Legas don ɗaukar alƙawari a matsayin Babban Alƙali a Warri. Ya kuma yi aiki a matsayin Babban Alkalin a Benin kafin yakin basasa a Najeriya ya ɓarke. A lokacin barkewar yakin basasa, an nada shi Alkalin Babban Kotun Shari'a a Tsakiyar Yamma, Najeriya a shekarar 1967.

## Alkalin Babban Kotun Shari'a ta Tsakiyar Yammacin Najeriya
An nada Atake a matsayin alƙali na Babban Kotun Midwestern Najeriya a shekarar 1967 tare da wasu alƙalai uku. Su ne Mai Shari'a Victor Ovie Whisky, Mai Shari'ar S O Ighodaro da Mai Shari'i M A Aghoghovbia . Yana da shekaru 41. An sanya shi a cikin Sapele Division don shiga Hon. Justice E A Ekeruche da Hon. Justice Akinwunmi Rhodes-Vivour . Sauran 'yan uwan Alƙalai a lokacin nadinsa sun haɗa da: Hon. Alƙalai Mason Begho (Babban Alƙali, Mid-West), J O Izuora, Andrews Otutu Obaseki, Ayo Gabriel Irikefe, Arthur Edward Prest, J. Omo-Eboh da Uche Omo.Atake ya yi aiki a bangarori daban-daban na Kotun Koli a Mid-West wanda ya hada da bangarorin Benin, Warri da Agbor. Ya magance shari'o'i da yawa. An rubuta cewa ya kasance mai sauri a cikin ɗaukar. A kotunsa, ba da adalci ya kasance mai sauri da sauri. Ya kasance mai ka'ida sosai, mai karfi. Wannan suna har yanzu yana gaba da shi a duk bangarorin da ya yi aiki ko dai a matsayin Alkalin Babban Kotun. Ya ce Ephraim Akpata, mai shari'a mai ritaya na Kotun Koli ta Najeriya, a cikin tarihin kansa Justice For All And By All (1994) a 148:"Mai shari'a F O M Atake yana daya daga cikin manyan majistare masu inganci da na yi aiki a gaban su. Ya kasance......mai saurin ɗaukarwa. An yi bincike sosai a kan hukunce-hukuncensa, an rubuta su da kyau kuma suna da ƙwarewa sosai. Ayyuka a kotunsa sun kasance masu sauri. Ga mafi kyawun ilimina, bai tsananta wa lauya ko mai shari'a ba. Mai shari'a Atake yana da ƙarfin zuciya kuma yana da ƙa'idodi sosai kuma yana riƙe da sauri ga abin da ya yi imani da shi. "Koyaya, lokacin da ya zo ga dokar raina kotu, Franklin Atake ya sami kansa, abin mamaki, a tsakiyar gardama. Wasu daga cikin yanke shawara game da raina shari'o'in kotu sun kawo shi cikin cikakken rikici tare da manema labarai kuma sun kawo sabuntawa na tallace-tallace na kasa. Ya tura Shugaban kungiyar lauyoyin Najeriya, dan uwansa, Mista Godwin Mogbeyi Boyo zuwa kurkuku saboda raina kotu lokacin da ya yi tunanin ya haye layin. A shekara ta 1969, ya ba da abin da ya zama yanke shawara mai rikitarwa a cikin shari'ar da aka ruwaito a matsayin Boyo v The Attorney-General, Mid-West [1971] 1 All NLR, 342; [1971] NSCC, 333; Duba kuma, Re: GM Boyo v the State [1970] 1 All N LR, 111, [1970] NSCC, 87. An kama Mista Godwin Mogbeyi Boyo a kan takardar shaidar da Franklin Atake ya bayar. A kan rashin amincewar lauyan Boyo cewa kotun ba ta da ikon sauraron shari'ar cin mutunci, Atake ya yanke hukuncin cewa ya cancanci shari'ar Boyo saboda cin zarafin kotu.

A dabi'a, kamar yadda Godwin Boyo ya kasance Shugaban kungiyar lauyoyin Najeriya, shawarar ta sami tallace-tallace mai yawa. 'Yan jarida gabaɗaya sun goyi bayan Boyo - akwai kira mai ɗorewa a kusan dukkanin jaridu na Najeriya don Franklin Atake ya yi murabus daga Bench. Wannan ya ci gaba na dogon lokaci. Shekaru. Gwamnan Mid-Western Nigeria, Brigadier Samuel Ogbemudia, shi ma ya shiga cikin lamarin. Bayan ya kasa shawo kan Babban Alkalin Yammacin Najeriya na lokacin, Mai Girma Mista Mai Shari'a Mason Begho, don tura batun ga Kwamitin Ba da Shawara na Shari'a na Tarayya (kungiyar da ke da alhakin, da sauransu, don daukar mataki na horo a kan alƙalai), Gwamnan ya rubuta wa Shugaban Jiha da Babban Kwamandan Sojoji, Janar Yakubu Gowon, yana neman a sami wata hanya don tura batun zuwa kwamitin. Gwamnan ya ba da shawarar cewa a gayyaci Franklin Atake ya yi murabus ko a cire shi daga Bench. Janar Gowon ya kai lamarin ga Kwamitin Ba da Shawara na Shari'a na Tarayya.Shugaban kwamitin, Babban Alkalin Najeriya, Dokta Taslim Olawale Elias, ya kira Franklin Atake don maganganunsa. Bayan cikakken la'akari da batun, Kwamitin Ba da Shawara na Shari'a na Tarayya ya yanke shawarar (a cikin yanke shawara da Shugaban kasa ya amince da shi) cewa:"Ko da yake Mista Mai Shari'a Atake na iya yin aiki ba tare da hankali ba, bai ga cewa an yi shari'a ba don cire shi daga Bench ko kuma don duk wani mataki na horo da za a dauka a kansa. Idan Babban Mai Shari'ar Sir Adetokunbo Ademola ya ji cewa matakin horo ya zama dole, zai ba da umarni kuma ya tayar da batun a gaban Kwamitin a daya daga cikin tarurrukan da suka biyo baya. Kwamitin ya raina halin da ba da manema labarai da Gwamnonin Sojoji da suka shiga cikin alƙalin da za a yi a cire shi a matsayin mai shari'a a cikin shari'a.An wanke Franklin Atake kuma ya ci gaba da aikin shari'a a cikin Kotun Shari'a ta Tsakiyar Yammacin Najeriya.

## Sanata na Jamhuriyar Tarayyar Najeriya
Atake da son rai ya yi ritaya daga Bench a shekarar 1977. An shawo kansa ya tsaya takarar Majalisar Dattijai ta Tarayyar Najeriya kuma an zabe shi da nasara a matsayin Sanata na Gundumar Sanata ta Bendel Delta tare da kuri'u 59,632 a karkashin tutar Jam'iyyar Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) a shekarar 1979.  Abin mamaki ne ga mutane da yawa cewa ya shiga siyasa saboda an yi tunanin cewa ba a yanke shi ba saboda hakan. Koyaya, bayan ya sami kansa a can, ya yanke shawarar yin amfani da lokacinsa a Majalisar Dattijai. Ya haɗu da basira mai basira tare da ƙwarewar siyasa mai zurfi kuma ya yi yaƙi da ƙarfi da rashin gajiyawa don abin da ya dace. A cikin ɗan gajeren lokaci a Majalisar Dattijai, jama'a da yawa sun yi sha'awarsa a matsayin mutum mai aminci da ƙarfin zuciya. Har ila yau, kwarewarsa a majalisa ta sa mutane da yawa su yi sha'awarsa.Jam'iyyar Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) ce ta zaba shi don zama dan takarar shugaban majalisar dattijai, Jam'iyyar National Party of Nigeria, NPN da ta zaba Dr. Joseph Wayas . Atake ya shiga cikin ruhun taron yana fatan cin nasara. NPN tana da mafi rinjaye a Majalisar Dattijai kuma tana da yarjejeniya da Jam'iyyar Jama'ar Najeriya (NPP). Sanatoci sun kada kuri'a sosai a kan jam'iyyun siyasa kuma Dokta Joseph Wayas ya zama Shugaban Majalisar Dattijai mai nasara wanda ya lashe da kuri'u 52 zuwa kuri'u 42. Abin takaici ne ga Franklin Atake cewa an jefa kuri'u ne kawai a kan layin jam'iyya kuma ba a kan wani bangare ba kuma a kan cancanta. Ko ta yaya, ba a hana shi yin sharhi game da batutuwan da suka shafi muhimmancin ƙasa ba kuma ba tare da wani lokaci ba, ya zama fitaccen mutum na siyasa.A majalisar dattijai, ya sami suna saboda kasancewa mai gwagwarmaya. Ya kasance babban mai ba da shawara kuma mai gwagwarmaya don ka'idar samo asali; ka'idar da za a raba albarkatun jihohi a hanyar da ta dace. A matsayinsa na Sanata, Franklin Atake shine wanda ya kirkiro kungiyar Kula da albarkatu. Har zuwa mutuwarsa, ya ba da shawarar Gudanar da Gudanar da Ma'aikata zuwa ƙarshen sa. Ya kamata kananan hukumomin da suka shafi su sami rabon su na albarkatun, musamman samun albarkatun man fetur. Ya ba da shawarar kafa kashi 50% na asali, tare da kashi 25% ga gwamnatin jihar da kashi 25% zuwa kananan hukumomi. Gwamnatin Tarayya za ta iya riƙe ma'auni.Atake ya yi tsayayya da duk wani abu da bai dace da ka'idoji da mulkin doka ba. Biyu daga cikin irin waɗannan misalai za su isa. Na farko, lokacin da Majalisar Dattijai ta zartar da abin da ake kira Dokar Rarraba Haraji (Federation Account) ta 1981 kuma Shugaban kasa na lokacin, Shehu Shagari ya sanya hannu ba bisa ka'ida ba a cikin doka (kamar yadda aka tabbatar a Kotun Koli - duba Attorney-General, Bendel State v Attorney General, Federation & Others [1982] 3 NCLR, 1,) ya tafi kotu yana mai da'awar dokar da aka yi a kan cewa ba bisa ka-ida ba, babu wani tasiri dangane da tanadi a cikin sassan 149 (2) na Kundin Tsarin Mulki na Tarayya na 1979 .Abu na biyu, lokacin da Babban Alkalin Jihar Bendel na lokacin, Mai Shari'a mai daraja Victor Ovie Whisky aka zaba Shugaban Hukumar Zabe ta Tarayya (FEDECO) kuma nadin sa ya zo gaban Majalisar Dattijai don tabbatarwa, ayyukan Majalisar Dattijan sun nuna cewa Franklin Atake ne wanda ya yi tsayayya da tabbatarwa a bene na Majalisar Dattilai a ƙasa cewa Ovie-Whiskey, CJ har yanzu jami'in gwamnati ne (Babban Alkalin jihar Bendel). Atake ya yi jayayya cewa Ovie-Whiskey bai fara yin murabus ba ko kuma ya yi ritaya a matsayin Babban Alkalin Jihar Bendel daidai da tanadi a cikin Kundin Tsarin Mulki na 1979 don haka duk wani nadin a matsayin Shugaban FEDECO zai zama mara amfani. Duk da wannan rashin amincewa, Majalisar Dattijai ta ci gaba da tabbatar da zaben. A ƙarshe, an nada Mista Mai Shari'a Victor Ovie Whisky a matsayin Shugaban FEDECO. Franklin Atake, wanda ke tafiya zuwa kasashen waje a lokacin, bai iya ɗaukar batun tsarin mulki a Kotun ba. Koyaya, wani sanannen Sanata ya yi. Lokacin da batun ya zo a gaban Kotun Koli ta Najeriya, an yanke shawarar cewa, Sanata ba shi da wani wuri don kawo matakin. Saboda haka, sanannen kuma sanannen yanke shawara na Kotun Koli a cikin shari'ar Sanata Ibrahim Adesanya v Shugaban Jamhuriyar Tarayyar Najeriya; Mai Shari'a mai daraja Victor Ovie-Whiskey [1981] NSCC, 146.  Bayan ya yi aiki sau ɗaya a Majalisar Dattijai, Atake bai tsaya takara ba a karo na biyu. Don haka ya bar Majalisar Dattijai a shekarar 1983. 

## A cikin ritaya
An nada shi Cif tare da taken Aboludero na Warri Kingdom ta Mai Girma Erejuwa II babban mai mulkin Itsekiri da Olu na Warri Kingdom a shekarar 1983. A lokacin da ya yi ritaya, Franklin Atake bai ɓace daga rayuwar jama'a ba. Ya zama sanannen mai shari'a a kan batutuwa da yawa wasu daga cikinsu na sirri ne kuma wasu sun shafi haƙƙin mutanen Neja Delta. Shari'o'i biyu daga cikinsu ya kasance mai shari'a sun kafa ka'idojin shari'a. A cikin Mai Shari'a F O M Atake v Cif Nelson Asigboro Afejuku [1994] 9 NWLR Sashe na 368, 379, Kotun Koli ta Najeriya a karo na farko a cikin Shari'ar Shari'a ta Najeriya ta yanke shawarar cewa Jami'in Shari'a wanda ya daina zama ɗaya yana da damar gudanar da shari'arsa da kansa. Cewa lokacin da ya bayyana da kansa, ba don wannan dalili ba ne, yana aiki a matsayin mai ba da shari'a a cikin ikon Kundin Tsarin Mulki. Hakazalika, a cikin Mai Shari'a F O M Atake v Cif Mene-Afejuku [1996] 3 NWLR Sashe na 437, 483. A batun shine hukuncin Kotun Koli wanda Karibi-Whyte, JSC ya gudanar da hakan, sashi na 340 (2) na Dokar Shari'ar Laifuka, Cap. 32, Dokokin Jihar Legas 1973 kamar yadda aka gyara sun haramta haƙƙin gurfanar da masu zaman kansu game da duk laifuka masu laifi.  (Dubi Akilu v Fawehinmi (no. 2) (1989) 2 NWLR, sashi 102, 122).  Wannan yanke shawara ta hana masu shigar da kara daga gurfanar da laifuka masu zaman kansu a Jihar Legas. Koyaya, Franklin Atake ya yi tunanin cewa an fassara dokar ba daidai ba kuma ya haifar da gabatar da karar sirri. A cikin wani yanke shawara mai mahimmanci, Kotun daukaka kara ta yanke hukuncin cewa an hana haƙƙin gabatar da kara a Jihar Legas ne kawai game da laifuka da za a iya tuhuma kuma ba a hana haƙƙin ba game da laphukan da ba za a iya zargi ba. Cewa yana da kyau a nuna Karibi-Whyte, JSC a cikin Babban Shari'arsa ba ya nufin cire dukkan laifuka amma kawai laifuka masu tuhuma.Ya kuma ci gaba da samar da ra'ayoyi da yawa game da batutuwan ƙasa musamman kan samo asali, da batutuwar da suka shafi kabilar Itsekiri da rikicin Warri. Alal misali, ya gabatar da jawabi ga "Kwamitin Bincike na Shari'a game da Rikicin Kabilanci tsakanin Ijaws da Itsekiris A cikin Yankin Warri Arewa, Kudu da Kudu maso Yamma na Jihar Delta". Ya kuma bayyana a gaban Hukumar da kansa. An kafa hukumar ne, don gano abubuwan da suka haifar da rikici tsakanin Ijaws da Itsekiris a cikin watanni na Maris zuwa Mayu 1997. Atake ya tafi gaban hukumar ya ce kuma ya buga shi a wasu jaridu na kasa cewa, dalilin rikici shine sanarwar ƙarya ta Gwamnan Soja na Jihar Delta, Colonel J Dungs cewa an kirkiro yankin Karamar Hukumar Warri ta Kudu tare da hedkwatar a Ogbe Ijaw; wani yanki na Ijaw a cikin Warri Division. Atake ya zargi duk dalilin rikicin a ƙofar Colonel Dungs da Dungs 'ayyukan haramtacciyar doka'. Har zuwa ƙarshe, Franklin Atake ya kasance mai tsayin daka da kuma mai tsayin ra'ayi ga mutanen Itsekiri da haƙƙin mutanen Neja Delta. Ya kasance daya daga cikin masu ba da shawara mafi karfi game da ka'idar samo asali a kasar. Yana da matukar daraja ga zuciyarsa kuma a matsayin Sanata na Jamhuriyar Tarayya, ya gabatar da shawarwari da yawa a bene na Majalisar don a karɓi wannan ƙa'idar. Sakamakon haka, lokacin da Kotun Koli a cikin abin da aka fi sani da shari'ar On-shore / Off-Shore (duba, A-G, Tarayya v A-G (No.2) [2002] 6 NWLR Sashe na 764 a 542) wanda wannan kotun ta yanke shawarar cewa iyakokin teku na jihohin da ke bakin teku na Najeriya, wato: Legas, Ogun, Ondo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Cross Rivers da Akwa Ibom don dalilai na lissafin adadin kudaden shiga da aka samo daga kowace kasada ta ƙasa ta kowane labarin da aka buga a cikin waɗannan jihohin da aka buga.

## Rayuwa ta mutum
Ya mutu a Legas a ranar 1 ga Maris 2003 yana da shekaru 76 na cutar zuciya. Ya auri Victoria Arugha Patricia Atake (née Foss). Suna da 'ya'ya da yawa, ciki har da Eyimofe Atake,  Babban Lauyan Najeriya da Adewale Atake kuma Babban Lauyan Nigeria. 

## Manazarta