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ontrary to the widespread rumor trending on the
social media where Rashidi Yekini’s mother
Sikiratu Yekini is seen standing an impoverished
woman hawking bread for survival, I have to come
out strongly to condemn in strong terms the malicious
attempt by the uninformed sets of people who are set to
tarnish the good image of late Rashidi Yekini as a prodigal
son who never took care of his family especially his
mother.
Attached to this mail are the pictures of the 4 flats of 3
bedrooms each with 4 Boys Quarters of 2 rooms each built
at the back of the building which was built by Yekini for his
mother before he died. Yekini`s mother had always been a
petty trader even when her son was alive.
Rashidi Yekini
“This background building of Yekini`s mother picture
trending online is actually a garage in the 4 flats built by
my late client in Ijagbo few kilometer to Offa and about 9
kilometers away from his village, Ira. Even before the
demise of Rashidi, the woman had always been in charge of
the rent of the building which runs into to several hundreds
of thousands of naira without Rashidi interfering.
The Boy`s quarters at the back of the main building as at
2006 was around N48,000.00 each, while each 3 bedroom
flat in the main building goes for about N80,000.00 each or
more which brought her annual income from rent of the
building to about half a million naira despite the fact that
Rashidi was always sending pocket money to her and her
siblings. Apart from this, Rashidi made sure he empowered
his entire sibling by opening one of the best hairdressing
saloons for his late sister, late Rofiat, who also died in
2014.
Nigerian later soccer statr, YRashidi Yekini's mother
sells bread to survive in Ira township, Kwara state
Akeem (his younger brother) was not left out of Rashidi`s
generosity as he bought 18 seater bus for him among many
things I do not want to mention in this forum. I wonder
where did the writer got the impression that Rashidi ever
neglected his mother.
Even after the death of Rashidi, nobody, not even his two
daughters have ever interfered on who takes the rent. Not
even the ex-wives, on behalf of their respective daughters
ever query the mother about the income from the building. I
wonder how she is now starving. Two of her children are
dead (Rashidi and Rofiat) leaving only Ismaila and Akeem.
Ismaila is based in Kaduna with his family. While Hakeem
is the only person living with her with his wife. How is she
starving? Can an old woman exhaust over half a million on
feeding alone in a year?
I am not against any further assistance by any well
meaning Nigerian to her, but I owe my late client the duty
to set the record straight and because of the negative
reactions on social media especially through
SaharaReporters, which portray Rashidi as an irresponsible
son, who never cared about his family. I am seriously upset
about the impression being created by the people who have
read the unfortunate story. The gospel and the
uncontroverted truth is that Rashidi made adequate
provision for his mother. The questions that we should be
asking is how are his two daughters faring and who is
responsible for their education and upkeep.

It is well

Wow!!what an eye opener...quite insightful..she could be selling the bread just to keep herself busy and fight depression because losing two kids within 3years is not easy..you have done well,op!!@least you jst defended someone's legacy.

some oldies can be like dat....persist all u want ....they wont stop those things that gives dem happiness

'Yeking' the best ever
Not dis rubbish dis current group is playing in Super Eagles.