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Air Crashes: Rumours Of Sacrifice, Agagu And Stella Oduah, By Fani-kayode by lanAfo: 7:50pm On Oct 05, 2013
Air crashes: Rumours of Sacrifice, Agagu
and Stella Oduah, by Fani-Kayode
on october 05, 2013 at 6:59 pm in news
By Femi Fani-Kayode
Last year on June 3rd 2012, there was a plane
crash in Nigeria in which over 163 people were
killed. The plane was owned by Dana Air. The day
before that on June 2nd 2012 a Nigerian cargo
plane owned by Kabo Air left our shores and flew
to Accra, Ghana where it overshot the runway,
crashed into the main road behind the airport
and killed many Ghanaian motorists. What made
this all the more tragic was the fact that Ghana
had never experienced a plane crash at Kotoka
International Airport before this incident. It is a
pity that it had to be a Nigerian plane, with a
Nigerian crew and cargo that had to break that
enviable record.
Over one year later on 3rd October 2013, which
was last Thursday, there was yet another plane
crash in Nigeria in which 13 people died. The
plane was owned by Associated Airlines. Worse
still the following day, which was 4th October
2013, a Saudi Arabian-bound Nigerian plane
which was owned by Kabo Airline and which was
carrying 400 passengers on board from Sokoto,
almost crashed when both it’s tyres exploded
mid-air and it had to crash land.
Had that plane actually crashed we would have
lost another 400 precious souls on that day.
Before the first crash took place last year and
between the two major crashes there were
numerous other smaller ones involving light
aircraft, private jets, military planes and
helicopters that were not publicised. All these
unfortunate events occurred under the tenure of
Princess Stella Oduah, who is the current Minister
of Aviation. Under her watch close to 200 souls
have been killed in air crashes in the last two
years alone.
This does not surprise me given the nature of the
individual that is involved. What does surprise me
however is the fact that just one day after those
that perished in the latest crash were killed,
before the victims were buried, before the site of
the crash was cleared, whilst the charred bodies
and burnt parts of the victims still lay at the crash
site and before any formal investigation into the
causes of the crash have commenced, the ruling
PDP, through their spokesman Chief Olisa Metuh,
has told the world that they have ”full
confidence” in Stella Oduah and that ”she should
be allowed to continue her good work”.
Is there any greater evidence of the fact that the
PDP is a sick party that is led by sick people than
this? Such insensitivity is rarely seen anywhere in
the world. Only in Nigeria can this happen. Not
only am I surprised but I am also utterly
disgusted. How many more people have to be
killed in air crashes before our President realises
that he needs a new Minister of Aviation?
The truth is that there is far more to aviation than
beautifying airports. The first and most important
consideration has to be the safety of the
passengers and the airworthiness of the planes
followed by a solemn and avowed commitment to
ensure the discipline, professionalism and
efficiency of the aviation parastatals. Most
important of all when a plane crashes, whatever
the reasons or causes, the Minister ought to
assume full responsibility and even offer his or her
resignation. Failing that he or she ought to be
redeployed to another ministry or completely
removed from the cabinet. This is because it is his
or her primary responsibility to keep air travellers
safe and alive.
CRAsHED: Fuselage of the crashed aircraft
Embraer 120RT Brasilia, registration number 5N-
BJY.
Sadly it does not appear that this is likely to
happen anytime soon. As a matter of fact I am
convinced that even if 1,000 people were killed in
air crashes in the space of just 6 months under
President Goodluck Jonathan he would still not
redeploy or sack Stella Oduah because our
President just ”doesn’t give a damn”.
Each time a plane crashes it saddens me deeply
because to anyone that has ever worked there
before aviation is like a family. Worse still those
people that lost their lives were our people – they
were our fellow Nigerians. It really does hurt.
Suffice it to say that there were no air crashes
under my watch and not one drop of blood was
split from the air whilst I was Minister of Aviation,
whether it be passenger plane, private jet,
helicopter or light aircraft. I thank God for that
because if it had happened I would not have been
able to sleep at night. I am the only Minister of
Aviation in Nigeria between 2002 to date that can
lay claim to that. I put it down to hard work,
prayer and the grace of God and nothing else.
Unlike some others, I was literally paranoid when
it came to air safety and security because it was
obvious to me that there was more to the whole
thing than meets the eye.
Permit me to go into a little detail. The year before
I became Minister of Aviation there were 5 plane
crashes and 453 people perished from our skies.
The airlines that crashed were Bellview (2005),
Sosolisso (2006), a Nigerian military plane
carrying a large number of senior army officers
(2006), ADC (2006) and a private light aircraft in
Kano which had on board the adopted son of the
PDP National Chairman Ahmadu Ali and a pilot
(2006). At the time that all these crashes took
place Professor Babalola Borisade was the Minister
of Aviation. In November 2006 Borisade was
redeployed to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism
where I was Minister and I was sent to Aviation
and by the grace of God from that point on my
team and I, with the full backing and support of
President Olusegun Obasanjo, put a stop to the
crashes and we broke the cycle.
We left office in May 2007 and almost
immediately after that the standard dropped
again and the cycle of terrible air crashes
returned to our shores. They have not stopped
since. As I pointed out in another essay which I
wrote last year after the Dana crash, 90 per cent
of the crashes that have taken place in Nigeria in
the last 11 years have taken place at weekends.
That in itself is strange but what is even stranger
is the fact that there are two ten year cycles of
major crashes that have been in operation in our
country since 1992. I call them ”sacrificial
cycles”. The details are as follows.
There was a major crash in 1992 (C-130 military
airplane in which 160 army officers were killed).
Ten years later there was a second major crash in
2002 (EAS Airline in which 105 people were
killed). Ten years later there was a third major
crash in 2012 (Dana Airline in which 163 were
killed). This represents the first ”ten year cycle” of
crashes and if it is not broken there will be
another major crash in 2022 which will result in a
large loss of life.
The second ”ten year cycle” began in 1996 when
ADC crashed with the loss of over 160 lives. This
was followed by another crash ten years later in
2006 which involved another plane from ADC and
which again resulted in the loss of over 160 lives.
If the cycle is not broken I have little doubt that
there will be another major crash in Nigeria in
2016. These observations have nothing to do with
superstition but they are based on painstaking
research, facts and logic. There have many other
big and small crashes within and between the
dates of the two major ”ten year cycles” but what
seems amazing and strange to me is the
recurrent and definative pattern of the ten year
cycles themselves.
It is almost as if it is some kind of pagan or
religious obligation or debt that is being paid to
some hidden and dark forces. Some may dismiss
all this as mere coincidence but the actual day
and month that all those crashes took place on
tells another story which I will not go into here.
Whatever anyone else may believe or think I have
no doubt whatsoever in my mind that there is a
spiritual dimension to these matters and I have
been saying so publicly since I was at the aviation
ministry. Other than sheer hard work, an
insistence on full compliance with safety
standards and the display of the most rigorous
form of discipline from the top to the bottom, in
order to break these patterns and cycles of
crashes and protect our skies, much prayer and
intercession is required. There are a number of
other rather startling and strange patterns, as
well, but I am not prepared to share those with
the public in order not to create any panic.
One thing that I know, though, is that God is in
control and that, as the bible says, ”He reveals to
redeem”. There is absolutely no cause for any fear
or alarm. I have written and spoken many times
on this. I have pointed out the problems over and
over again and suggested how it can be stopped.
It may not stop though because there are some
depraved people in our country that do not want
it to stop, that benefit from it, that delight in it
and that believe in it. This is the bitter truth.
That, together with the fact that in Nigeria not
enough people care for or truly value human life.
We only pretend to care.
For more on this, I urge those that are interested
to read my essay titled ”Air Crashes In Nigeria,
Sacrificial Cycles and the Weekend Phenomenon”
which was published in a number of newspapers
after the Dana crash last year. They can also read
the first segment of my submissions at a public
hearing of the Senate Aviation Committee in 2008
which was titled ”My Mandate At The Ministry of
Aviation”. They are both on my website… or they
can just be googled.
My views about the crashes and their causes are
well enunciated in both. Other than that I will not
say anything about air crashes in Nigeria because
what I have said and exposed has already caused
me more than enough trouble from those that
believe such matters ought to be kept secret and
away from the public for reasons best known to
themselves. Suffice it to say that my conscience
is clear and that I did my very best to save and
protect Nigerian lives whilst I was Minister of
Aviation. That is all that matters to me and
because of that I sleep very well at night. To God
alone be the glory.
One last point. I find it nauseating and distasteful
that some people would relish the fact that the
corpse of Governor Agagu went through all that it
did when he was being flown to Akure for his final
burial rites and that they seemed almost joyful at
the fact that the plane crashed resulting in the
loss of all those innocent souls. This is a disgrace
and I feel utterly outraged by it. The shameful
refrain, which is all over the social media, is that
Agagu somehow deserved to die a ”second
death” from the skies because so many people
had supposedly been killed in plane crashes
under his watch as Minister of Aviation. This is
false. It is also sheer wickedness. As a matter of
fact it is evil.
File photo: Dana plane crash
Only God knows how each of us will come to our
end and it is not true to say that the harvest of
deaths that took place in the aviation industry
whilst President Obasanjo was in power took place
under Agagu’s watch. He was appointed Minister
of Aviation in 1999 and remained there until
2001 when he was redeployed to the Ministry of
Power by the President. I am not aware of ANY
plane crashes that took place during Agagu’s
tenure as Minister of Aviation. The string of
consistent major crashes in Nigeria really began in
2002 when EAS Airline crashed in Kano killing
over 105 people including the then Minister of
Sports, Mr. Mark Aku. At the time of that crash
Mrs. Kema Chikwe was Minister of Aviation and
not Agagu. The last major crash that took place
before the 2002 EAS crash in Nigeria was the
aforementioned ADC crash of 1996 where 160
were killed.
The most pronounced years of tragedy and
carnage in aviation, which involved 6 major
crashes and numerous smaller ones, were really
between 2002 and November 2006 when the
carnage was finally brought to a halt. Sadly it
began again almost immediately after we left
office in May 2007 when small planes, light
aircraft and helicopters started dropping from the
sky. Then came the mysterious disappearance of
Ibori’s ”Wings Aviation” plane with a number of
fatal casualties from our skies in 2008 and things
really went downhill from there.
In the last 11 years, between 2002 and 2013
over 850 people have been killed in air crashes in
Nigeria- 453 under Borisade and just under 200
of them under Stella Oduah. This is an atrocious
record of air safety and I believe that I am right in
saying that it is a peace-time world record.
Whatever the case it is nothing to be proud of
and it reflects badly on all of us, particularly those
of us that were once Ministers of Aviation.
I have done my research and I have the details of
every single crash that has taken place in this
country over the last eleven years whether it be a
private plane, light aircraft, military aircraft,
passenger plane or helicopter. As long as such a
crash resulted in the loss of life I have the record
of it and all the details. None of those crashes
took place under the watch of Dr. Segun Agagu
and I implore those that are doing so to stop
attributing the sad events that preceeded his
burial to some kind of divine retribution for what
purportedly occured when he was Minister of
Aviation. Nothing can be more cruel than this and
nothing could be further from the truth.
Permit me to end this contribution with a few
words to the families of those that were lost in the
crash. It is always a painful thing when we lose
someone dear and this is especially so when it
happens in such a painful and violent manner. My
heart goes out to each and every family that lost
their loved ones in this latest crash. May the Lord
comfort each and every one of them and may He
heal their wounds with the balm of Gilead. My
commiserations also goes to the people of Ondo
State and particularly to my dear friend and
brother Governor Olusegun Mimiko who is a man
that I have tremendous respect for, a practising
and committed christian and a man of immense
integrity and spiritual fortitude.
To my dear brothers that were lost in that terrible
crash themselves, including Mr. Tunji Okunsanya
and his son Tunji jnr. (whose MIC company buried
both of my parents in 1995 and 2001
respectively), Mr. Deji Falae who was the
Commissioner of Culture and Tourism for Ondo
state and so many others, I say the following-
may God have mercy upon you. May He forgive
you of all your sins. May He cause His face to
shine upon you. May He grant you peace eternal.
May you abide with Him in eternity. May your
souls be blessed forever. May the watchman and
the boatman grant you safe passage into the
higher realms. May the halls of Valhalla, where the
brave shall live forever, be open unto to you.
May you never be forgotten and may your names
wax strong in our hearts and minds from
generation to generation. May the memory of
your beautiful smiles continue to give us strength
and bring us hope. You were a real blessing to so
many. Rest in peace. Until we meet again.


www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/air-crashes-rumours-sacrifice-agagu-stella-oduah/
Re: Air Crashes: Rumours Of Sacrifice, Agagu And Stella Oduah, By Fani-kayode by nerodenero: 8:20pm On Oct 05, 2013
The facts here are too detailed,convincing,an eye-opener and highly worrisome.Somebody need to ask questions about the way forward.In a normal society where things are done rightly and people value result when given a job,Stella Oduah would have tender her resignation letter.Unfortunately,our society is not normal and honourable resignation isn't in our culture.For me,I will not even pray my enemy fly at all let alone a local flight.We need a total turnaround and God is the answer.
Re: Air Crashes: Rumours Of Sacrifice, Agagu And Stella Oduah, By Fani-kayode by bloggernaija: 8:34pm On Oct 05, 2013
Fani got me on the accountability part and the argument that the emphasis should be on functionality and safety rather than beauty.
Working toilets,escalators,lifts,air conditioning and clean environment.
But he lost me on that spiritual thing nigerians love to engage in.
ACCIDENT DO NOT JUST HAPPEN,THEY ARE CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE AND HUMAN ERROR.
Re: Air Crashes: Rumours Of Sacrifice, Agagu And Stella Oduah, By Fani-kayode by enyi1: 8:50pm On Oct 06, 2013
lanAfo: Air crashes: Rumours of Sacrifice, Agagu
and Stella Oduah, by Fani-Kayode
on october 05, 2013 at 6:59 pm in news
By Femi Fani-Kayode
Last year on June 3rd 2012, there was a plane
crash in Nigeria in which over 163 people were
killed. The plane was owned by Dana Air. The day
before that on June 2nd 2012 a Nigerian cargo
plane owned by Kabo Air left our shores and flew
to Accra, Ghana where it overshot the runway,
crashed into the main road behind the airport
and killed many Ghanaian motorists. What made
this all the more tragic was the fact that Ghana
had never experienced a plane crash at Kotoka
International Airport before this incident. It is a
pity that it had to be a Nigerian plane, with a
Nigerian crew and cargo that had to break that
enviable record.
Over one year later on 3rd October 2013, which
was last Thursday, there was yet another plane
crash in Nigeria in which 13 people died. The
plane was owned by Associated Airlines. Worse
still the following day, which was 4th October
2013, a Saudi Arabian-bound Nigerian plane
which was owned by Kabo Airline and which was
carrying 400 passengers on board from Sokoto,
almost crashed when both it’s tyres exploded
mid-air and it had to crash land.
Had that plane actually crashed we would have
lost another 400 precious souls on that day.
Before the first crash took place last year and
between the two major crashes there were
numerous other smaller ones involving light
aircraft, private jets, military planes and
helicopters that were not publicised. All these
unfortunate events occurred under the tenure of
Princess Stella Oduah, who is the current Minister
of Aviation. Under her watch close to 200 souls
have been killed in air crashes in the last two
years alone.
This does not surprise me given the nature of the
individual that is involved. What does surprise me
however is the fact that just one day after those
that perished in the latest crash were killed,
before the victims were buried, before the site of
the crash was cleared, whilst the charred bodies
and burnt parts of the victims still lay at the crash
site and before any formal investigation into the
causes of the crash have commenced, the ruling
PDP, through their spokesman Chief Olisa Metuh,
has told the world that they have ”full
confidence” in Stella Oduah and that ”she should
be allowed to continue her good work”.
Is there any greater evidence of the fact that the
PDP is a sick party that is led by sick people than
this? Such insensitivity is rarely seen anywhere in
the world. Only in Nigeria can this happen. Not
only am I surprised but I am also utterly
disgusted. How many more people have to be
killed in air crashes before our President realises
that he needs a new Minister of Aviation?
The truth is that there is far more to aviation than
beautifying airports. The first and most important
consideration has to be the safety of the
passengers and the airworthiness of the planes
followed by a solemn and avowed commitment to
ensure the discipline, professionalism and
efficiency of the aviation parastatals. Most
important of all when a plane crashes, whatever
the reasons or causes, the Minister ought to
assume full responsibility and even offer his or her
resignation. Failing that he or she ought to be
redeployed to another ministry or completely
removed from the cabinet. This is because it is his
or her primary responsibility to keep air travellers
safe and alive.
CRAsHED: Fuselage of the crashed aircraft
Embraer 120RT Brasilia, registration number 5N-
BJY.
Sadly it does not appear that this is likely to
happen anytime soon. As a matter of fact I am
convinced that even if 1,000 people were killed in
air crashes in the space of just 6 months under
President Goodluck Jonathan he would still not
redeploy or sack Stella Oduah because our
President just ”doesn’t give a damn”.
Each time a plane crashes it saddens me deeply
because to anyone that has ever worked there
before aviation is like a family. Worse still those
people that lost their lives were our people – they
were our fellow Nigerians. It really does hurt.
Suffice it to say that there were no air crashes
under my watch and not one drop of blood was
split from the air whilst I was Minister of Aviation,
whether it be passenger plane, private jet,
helicopter or light aircraft. I thank God for that
because if it had happened I would not have been
able to sleep at night. I am the only Minister of
Aviation in Nigeria between 2002 to date that can
lay claim to that. I put it down to hard work,
prayer and the grace of God and nothing else.
Unlike some others, I was literally paranoid when
it came to air safety and security because it was
obvious to me that there was more to the whole
thing than meets the eye.
Permit me to go into a little detail. The year before
I became Minister of Aviation there were 5 plane
crashes and 453 people perished from our skies.
The airlines that crashed were Bellview (2005),
Sosolisso (2006), a Nigerian military plane
carrying a large number of senior army officers
(2006), ADC (2006) and a private light aircraft in
Kano which had on board the adopted son of the
PDP National Chairman Ahmadu Ali and a pilot
(2006). At the time that all these crashes took
place Professor Babalola Borisade was the Minister
of Aviation. In November 2006 Borisade was
redeployed to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism
where I was Minister and I was sent to Aviation
and by the grace of God from that point on my
team and I, with the full backing and support of
President Olusegun Obasanjo, put a stop to the
crashes and we broke the cycle.
We left office in May 2007 and almost
immediately after that the standard dropped
again and the cycle of terrible air crashes
returned to our shores. They have not stopped
since. As I pointed out in another essay which I
wrote last year after the Dana crash, 90 per cent
of the crashes that have taken place in Nigeria in
the last 11 years have taken place at weekends.
That in itself is strange but what is even stranger
is the fact that there are two ten year cycles of
major crashes that have been in operation in our
country since 1992. I call them ”sacrificial
cycles”. The details are as follows.
There was a major crash in 1992 (C-130 military
airplane in which 160 army officers were killed).
Ten years later there was a second major crash in
2002 (EAS Airline in which 105 people were
killed). Ten years later there was a third major
crash in 2012 (Dana Airline in which 163 were
killed). This represents the first ”ten year cycle” of
crashes and if it is not broken there will be
another major crash in 2022 which will result in a
large loss of life.
The second ”ten year cycle” began in 1996 when
ADC crashed with the loss of over 160 lives. This
was followed by another crash ten years later in
2006 which involved another plane from ADC and
which again resulted in the loss of over 160 lives.
If the cycle is not broken I have little doubt that
there will be another major crash in Nigeria in
2016. These observations have nothing to do with
superstition but they are based on painstaking
research, facts and logic. There have many other
big and small crashes within and between the
dates of the two major ”ten year cycles” but what
seems amazing and strange to me is the
recurrent and definative pattern of the ten year
cycles themselves.
It is almost as if it is some kind of pagan or
religious obligation or debt that is being paid to
some hidden and dark forces. Some may dismiss
all this as mere coincidence but the actual day
and month that all those crashes took place on
tells another story which I will not go into here.
Whatever anyone else may believe or think I have
no doubt whatsoever in my mind that there is a
spiritual dimension to these matters and I have
been saying so publicly since I was at the aviation
ministry. Other than sheer hard work, an
insistence on full compliance with safety
standards and the display of the most rigorous
form of discipline from the top to the bottom, in
order to break these patterns and cycles of
crashes and protect our skies, much prayer and
intercession is required. There are a number of
other rather startling and strange patterns, as
well, but I am not prepared to share those with
the public in order not to create any panic.
One thing that I know, though, is that God is in
control and that, as the bible says, ”He reveals to
redeem”. There is absolutely no cause for any fear
or alarm. I have written and spoken many times
on this. I have pointed out the problems over and
over again and suggested how it can be stopped.
It may not stop though because there are some
depraved people in our country that do not want
it to stop, that benefit from it, that delight in it
and that believe in it. This is the bitter truth.
That, together with the fact that in Nigeria not
enough people care for or truly value human life.
We only pretend to care.
For more on this, I urge those that are interested
to read my essay titled ”Air Crashes In Nigeria,
Sacrificial Cycles and the Weekend Phenomenon”
which was published in a number of newspapers
after the Dana crash last year. They can also read
the first segment of my submissions at a public
hearing of the Senate Aviation Committee in 2008
which was titled ”My Mandate At The Ministry of
Aviation”. They are both on my website… or they
can just be googled.
My views about the crashes and their causes are
well enunciated in both. Other than that I will not
say anything about air crashes in Nigeria because
what I have said and exposed has already caused
me more than enough trouble from those that
believe such matters ought to be kept secret and
away from the public for reasons best known to
themselves. Suffice it to say that my conscience
is clear and that I did my very best to save and
protect Nigerian lives whilst I was Minister of
Aviation. That is all that matters to me and
because of that I sleep very well at night. To God
alone be the glory.
One last point. I find it nauseating and distasteful
that some people would relish the fact that the
corpse of Governor Agagu went through all that it
did when he was being flown to Akure for his final
burial rites and that they seemed almost joyful at
the fact that the plane crashed resulting in the
loss of all those innocent souls. This is a disgrace
and I feel utterly outraged by it. The shameful
refrain, which is all over the social media, is that
Agagu somehow deserved to die a ”second
death” from the skies because so many people
had supposedly been killed in plane crashes
under his watch as Minister of Aviation. This is
false. It is also sheer wickedness. As a matter of
fact it is evil.
File photo: Dana plane crash
Only God knows how each of us will come to our
end and it is not true to say that the harvest of
deaths that took place in the aviation industry
whilst President Obasanjo was in power took place
under Agagu’s watch. He was appointed Minister
of Aviation in 1999 and remained there until
2001 when he was redeployed to the Ministry of
Power by the President. I am not aware of ANY
plane crashes that took place during Agagu’s
tenure as Minister of Aviation. The string of
consistent major crashes in Nigeria really began in
2002 when EAS Airline crashed in Kano killing
over 105 people including the then Minister of
Sports, Mr. Mark Aku. At the time of that crash
Mrs. Kema Chikwe was Minister of Aviation and
not Agagu. The last major crash that took place
before the 2002 EAS crash in Nigeria was the
aforementioned ADC crash of 1996 where 160
were killed.
The most pronounced years of tragedy and
carnage in aviation, which involved 6 major
crashes and numerous smaller ones, were really
between 2002 and November 2006 when the
carnage was finally brought to a halt. Sadly it
began again almost immediately after we left
office in May 2007 when small planes, light
aircraft and helicopters started dropping from the
sky. Then came the mysterious disappearance of
Ibori’s ”Wings Aviation” plane with a number of
fatal casualties from our skies in 2008 and things
really went downhill from there.
In the last 11 years, between 2002 and 2013
over 850 people have been killed in air crashes in
Nigeria- 453 under Borisade and just under 200
of them under Stella Oduah. This is an atrocious
record of air safety and I believe that I am right in
saying that it is a peace-time world record.
Whatever the case it is nothing to be proud of
and it reflects badly on all of us, particularly those
of us that were once Ministers of Aviation.
I have done my research and I have the details of
every single crash that has taken place in this
country over the last eleven years whether it be a
private plane, light aircraft, military aircraft,
passenger plane or helicopter. As long as such a
crash resulted in the loss of life I have the record
of it and all the details. None of those crashes
took place under the watch of Dr. Segun Agagu
and I implore those that are doing so to stop
attributing the sad events that preceeded his
burial to some kind of divine retribution for what
purportedly occured when he was Minister of
Aviation. Nothing can be more cruel than this and
nothing could be further from the truth.
Permit me to end this contribution with a few
words to the families of those that were lost in the
crash. It is always a painful thing when we lose
someone dear and this is especially so when it
happens in such a painful and violent manner. My
heart goes out to each and every family that lost
their loved ones in this latest crash. May the Lord
comfort each and every one of them and may He
heal their wounds with the balm of Gilead. My
commiserations also goes to the people of Ondo
State and particularly to my dear friend and
brother Governor Olusegun Mimiko who is a man
that I have tremendous respect for, a practising
and committed christian and a man of immense
integrity and spiritual fortitude.
To my dear brothers that were lost in that terrible
crash themselves, including Mr. Tunji Okunsanya
and his son Tunji jnr. (whose MIC company buried
both of my parents in 1995 and 2001
respectively), Mr. Deji Falae who was the
Commissioner of Culture and Tourism for Ondo
state and so many others, I say the following-
may God have mercy upon you. May He forgive
you of all your sins. May He cause His face to
shine upon you. May He grant you peace eternal.
May you abide with Him in eternity. May your
souls be blessed forever. May the watchman and
the boatman grant you safe passage into the
higher realms. May the halls of Valhalla, where the
brave shall live forever, be open unto to you.
May you never be forgotten and may your names
wax strong in our hearts and minds from
generation to generation. May the memory of
your beautiful smiles continue to give us strength
and bring us hope. You were a real blessing to so
many. Rest in peace. Until we meet again.


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SHE IS NOT GOING TO RESIGN OR LIVE HER JOB FOR U OR UR FOLLIES. YOU FOOL!!!

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