Rare photo of Herbert Samuel Heelas Macaulay

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Herbert Samuel Heelas Macaulay (Wizard of Kirsten Hall) and Michael Imoudu in 1946. (Macaulay’s last Photo). 

Image Source: Isaac B. Thomas (Akede EKO)

Apparently both Herbert Macaulay and Michael Imoudu were inmates at the Notorious Broad Street Prison (now Freedom Park, Lagos) at separate times in their lives.

Herbert Macaulay was imprisoned between 1913-1915, convicted of perjury over a case involving a trust fund. He was sent to Prison on the eve of his departure to London as a delegate to deliberate over the increasing anxiety between traditional land owners and the colonial government over land issues in the state then. (The West African Lands Committee Case of 1912/1913)

Historians have argued the fact that Macaulay was just sent to prison because he was a thorn in the flesh of the Colonial movement in Lagos and most importantly to stop him from going to London.
Imoudu on the other hand was imprisoned when he led a strike action to protest against the low cost of living of Nigerian workers and against the existence of colonial rule in Nigeria. The strike which was the mother of all Union Strike Action in Africa then lasted for 44 days. The entire country was on lock down.

Michael Imoudu organized and became the first president of the Nigeria Union of Railway men in 1940, and his tenure in office was marked by unprecedented militancy.

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