Tanwa
who had married a nice young gentleman has now added the ultimate
disgrace to the Fagbayi family name. Her husband who has a nice job with
an oil company had travelled to one of the ex USSR satellite countries
and left Tanwa in the house with their two young children. Alas, when
Tanwa’s mother-in-law came visiting to their 1004 Victoria Island Flat
Estate, she found Tanwa in bed with the family driver. To cut the long
story short, Tanwa has been sent packing and she has relocated to the
USA.
It
did not come as a shock, some years back when Olu Fagbayi, the scion of
the Fagbayi family passed gently away. This was because the sleek,
happy-go-lucky and gregarious Olu had, some years back, lived life to
the hilt, but life had then lived past him and abated with receding ebb.
Olu was the son of the very successful building contractor, Chief M.
Fagbayi, Chairman of MA Fagbayi & Sons, undoubtedly the most
successful Lagos firm of building contractors. Being of the illustrious
Fagbayi family from the Oto royal family near Iddo on Lagos Mainland,
Chief Fagbayi possessed a huge company works yard in Oto and had a
fantastic mansion by the creek in Apapa, a house on Willesden Lane in
London and educated all his children in highbrow educational institutes
in England. Olu had many sisters –Mrs “Mama” Bakare, Mrs Toun Mohammed,
Head of Apapa Corona School, Mrs Fulayo Ogbara, wife of Rasaq Ogbara of
the Ogbara dynasty.
Olu’s
dad had also married Mama Toyin, owner of thriving Toyin Stores in
Apapa and she had children for the Chief, Toyin, Bola and Tunde. Mama
Toyin had lost a son in a car accident in the UK and Toyin had had a
child for the maverick politician, Francis Arthur Nzeribe. However, when
Chief Fagbayi denied any knowledge of some funds which the late Lagos
State super Permanent Secretary, Alhaji Durosimi-Etti had said belonged
to him during a probe of civil servants in Lagos, all hell broke loose
and the rapport between MA Fagbayi & Sons and the Lagos State civil
servants vaporised and evaporated into thin air. Things were never the
same again and Chief M. A. Fagbayi began a downward fall on a sloppy and
slippery hill.
Olu,
who had returned from the UK and had trained as a builder, was the rave
of Lagos and it was parties galore with all the boys having a ball with
him at any of his father’s apartments on Randle Road, Apapa and
sometimes even in the mansion by the river. Olu, slim, handsome suave
had married Kehinde Onagoruwa whose father was the first Nigerian bank
manager and who hailed from Odogbolu in Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria.
Kehinde’s sister, Taiwo, was married to ebullient and fantastic
socialite, Eniola Odufunwa. Eniola Odufunwa was murdered by armed
robbers who smashed a bottle full of groundnuts on his head at his
lovely Gbagada residence early in the morning at the beginning of the
new millennium. Kehinde was a perfect partner for Olu as they both lived
a Champaign-Charlie lifestyle taking in the joide de vivre, first class
travel and crystal glasses. Mutatis mutandis, when a cheap fortune
began its decline, Olu’s lavish lifestyle also took a turn for the
worse. He, Olu, turned to the bottle and could not maintain his aging
father’s business interest. Chief Fagbayi later died in a minor car
accident on the Lekki-Epe Expressway. Sadly, despite Olu’s friends
coming to the financial assistance of Kehinde, she died of cancer in the
UK. Left to his devices, Olu, an erstwhile beautiful dancer, could not
manoeuvre himself out of his ordeal and passed away a few years ago.
Very
sadly, Olu’s son, living in the UK, would have nothing to do with his
father and did not bother to come to Nigeria for his burial. Olu’s other
son, Wole, has become a disgrace to the Fagbayi family as he hangs
around various shops fraudulently telling people to pay for his
purchases as he had left his wallet at home. As if all these were not
enough to traumatise the family and shame the name of Olu, his lovely
daughter, Tanwa who had married a nice young gentleman has now added the
ultimate disgrace to the Fagbayi family name. Her husband who has a
nice job with an oil company had travelled to one of the ex USSR
satellite countries and left Tanwa in the house with their two young
children. Alas, when Tanwa’s mother-in-law came visiting to their 1004
Victoria Island Flat Estate, she found Tanwa in bed with the family
driver. To cut the long story short, Tanwa has been sent packing and she
has relocated to the USA.
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