The remains of late Justice Karibi-Whyte, was interred on Saturday, September 26, in Abonnema community in Akuku Toru Local Government Area, of Rivers State. The funeral ceremony attracted former and serving Governors, top politicians and legal luminaries, who came in their numbers to honour the legal icon.
Late Karibi-Whyte was born in 1932 in the present day Akuku-Toru Local Government area of Rivers State. He attended the University of Hull in East Yorshire, England in 1957 and the University College of the University of London in 1962, for the Master of Law (LLM) degree. Before his appointment as judge of the Federal Revenue Court on June 12, 1976,
Justice Karibi-Whyte was an Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos and Acting Solicitor-General, Ministry of Justice, Rivers STate. Justice Karibi-Whyte CFR became justice of the Federal Court of Appeal in 1980, Justice of the supreme Court in 1984, and Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, at Hague, Netherlands in 1993.
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