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 successfulbuilding 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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