Your friend is someone you can always count on. The few who will show up for you in an instant that person who never fail to make you laugh and the first person you get on the phone whenever you may need advice in any case, the important bond between a true friend deserve to be celebrated.
And while the busyness of life may sometime get in the way, now is as good as any to let Mazi know how much I truly appreciate him.
It is given to just a few to achieve greatness, though many strive to make their own existence sublime. Great men and women are marked for the positive impact they make on their fellow morals. While some wallow in the outpouring of vanities for which they achieve notoriety, some special creatures work silently, but assiduously, to touch the lives of those who cross their paths in life’s journey.
Gentle and urbane, yet he possess the steel resolve to remain unshaken in his belief that this world can become a better place for all of us.
Not easily succumbing to the vain-glorious allurement of self-adulation on commonplace achievements he stay focused and consistent in his gait on the chosen path.
Afam, have been through the unsparing blows of the anvil in the furnace and, being refined through the dint of hard work sustained by perseverance, he have come out as pure gold, I bear witness that my friend Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN is undoubtedly one of these Great men.
My friend Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN, is a man who deserves to be celebrated by all good people. Those who believe in the nobility of our profession cannot but feel proud of the achievements of this man who has been in Bar as a REAL BAR-MAN over two decades.
Thus, permit me to say that the Bar has been extremely lucky to be peopled with the delicate mix of gentlemen of conservative, liberal and radical mien. This especial synergy is what marks us out as unique indeed. 
We may differs in methods, but the end result, JUSTICE, has always been of paramount importance to us. Ours is, perhaps, the only profession endowed with this uncommon gift. As we strive to extricate our country from the stranglehold of people decided on wrecking our collective peace, we should avail ourselves of the invaluable experiences of our Senior colleagues among whom my friend, my Oga Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN, is an eminently towers.
Consequently, after going through his profile the first time he wanted to contest for the President of NBA, I became humbled by the resourceful achievement and came to the conclusion that my friend, my Oga is a great man, your quota is a enviable one, see you at the top.
•Emmanuel Ekpuda, Esq. writes from NBA Efurun, Delta State.
