Dele Momodu, the publisher of Ovation International and former presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP has remembered his friends, Femi Osibona and Wale Bob-Oseni, who tragically died in the Ikoyi building collapse a year ago.
Femi Osibona was the Managing Director of Fourscore Heights Limited, a real estate firm developing a three-tower luxury apartment in Ikoyi Lagos State but unfortunately collapsed killing the developer and his friend, Wale Bob-Oseni, a United State based real estate dealer and Executive Director of African Bureau for Legislative Empowerment.
Bob-Oseni was on his way to the airport when he got a call from his friend, Osibona who invited him to see the luxury edifice he was erecting. Unfortunately, the two did not make it alive from the rubble of the building. Many workers were also killed in the tragic incident. Momodu took to Instagram to celebrate the memory of his good friend while praying for the repose of their souls.
The journalist cum politician had been friends with Osibona for two decades. He was greatly hit with the tragic incident and had to defend his late friend in a lengthy write-up when it was rumoured that greed and the quest for quick money pushed the real estate businessman to use substandard materials for the 21-storey building.
In the write-up titled, ‘The unsolvable Jigsaw of the Ikoyi Tragedy,’ Momodu eulogised the late Osibona while narrating how they met and lost touch when he was in exile in the United State. Their reunion and how Osibona made his stupendous wealth from regenerating ghetto neighbourhoods in East London. He emphasised that the businessman might have made some mistakes which led to the tragedy but definitely not the case of cutting corners for selfish gains. He encouraged a thorough investigation into the tragic incident.
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