The Commander of Onyabo Vigilance Group and founder of Bombata local music Group, Chief Kamorudeen Oshikabala Bombata, on Sunday, August 14, 2016, lost his first son, Kazeem Oshikabala and four other family members when the Hilux Pick-up car they were travelling in lost control and crashed into a parked BRT bus on the Third Mainland Bridge. His first daughter, Ruka and other family members were seriously injured.
According to a source, the family members who were coming back from a wedding engagement at Evans Square, Ebute-Metta, Lagos, got involved in the unfortunate incident when the driver, who was visibly drunk and over speeding collided with the stationed BRT Bus thus flinging most of the family members sitting at the back of the Hilux Pick-up car belonging to Onyabo Vigilance Group, in different directions.
Among the dead include, Kazeem Oshikabala, son of Onyabo commander, two children both young girls, between the ages of one and five years, and two other family members.
According to another source, the mother of a popular Fuji Music Exponent, Alhaji Sulaimon Adio popularly known as Atawewe, was also involved and got injured prompting the Fuji musician to rush to the scene to pick her.
However, the son of Chief Bombata, Kazeem did not die immediately and was rushed to the Gbagada General hospital but on getting there, he died before medical help could come. It was also learnt that Kazeem, who was a panel beater and vehicle dealer before his death had been telling people about his plans to move into his new house to celebrate Ileya day. Though, the house is still under construction, it was also learnt that he had done the roofing, while plans to fix the doors and aluminum windows were on going. For his desire to move into the house soonest, he revealed to people that he had already paid his children’s school fees upfront to allow him concentrate on the building work.
He was buried on Monday, August 15, 2016, in his uncompleted house at the back of Water Cooperation, Ota-Ona, Ikorodu. A source also disclosed that when his father who was travelling on one of the two vehicles that took them to Ebute-Metta learnt about what happened, he ordered his driver to turn back.
When he got to the scene and saw the disaster, he was completely devastated and distressed, which led to his being admitted at the Dele Hospital, Ota-Ona, Ikorodu, where he is being attended to.
Another source told Oriwu Sun that the driver of the crashed vehicle was prevailed upon to relinquish his car key before leaving the venue of the engagement ceremony, when it was noticed that he was drunk but he insisted on driving and would have driven Bombata himself.
As the accident occurred, it was discovered that the driver was neither among the dead nor the injured. What a providence?!