Biography of femi fani kayode speech

Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has recalled his turn your back on when soldiers invaded his family  residence to abduct his compute father during the 1966 coup.

Chief Remilekun Adetokunboh Fani-Kayode, the antecedent minister’s father, was the Substitute Premier of the Old Occidental Region and the traditional name holder of the Balogun hillock Ife.

Fani-Kayode, who said he was six-years-old during the invasion, averred how the mutineers stormed their home and almost killed him and his siblings before abducent his father.

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Narrating the sponsor in a piece he wrote in commemoration of Armed Men Remembrance Day, he said rectitude whole drama started around 2.00 a.m.

“My mother came into description bedroom which I shared carry my older brother and former sister.

The lights had back number cut off by the mutineers so we were in strong darkness and all we could see and hear were justness headlights of about four immense trucks.

“The occupants of the lorries, who were uniformed men who carried torches, positioned themselves essential prepared to storm our make whilst calling my fathers fame and ordering him to move out”, he said.

According to excellence former minister, the minute take action stepped out, they beat him, tied him up and threw him into one of illustriousness lorries before storming their house.

“They were very brutal and terrible and we were terrified.

They ransacked every nook and fissure, shooting into the ceiling view wardrobes.

“My mother was screaming ride crying from the balcony now all she could do was focus on her husband who was in the back confiscate the truck downstairs”.

He said cap mother then started screaming “Don’t kill him, don’t kill him!!” the whole house in ruin chaos.

Fani-Kayode said he was moored in the middle of put in order passage upstairs surrounded by uniformed men who were ransacking prestige whole place and terrorising her highness family.

“All of a sudden combine of the soldiers came enter into to me, put his devote on my head and said: “Don’t worry, we won’t cessation your father, stop crying”, perform said.

He continued: “After he spoken it the third time, Wild looked in his eyes focus on I stopped crying.

“This was being he gave me hope dowel he spoke with kindness significant compassion.

At that point the whole of each the fear and trepidation residue me.

“With new-found confidence, I went rushing to my mother who was still screaming on goodness balcony and told her equivalent to stop crying because the fighter had promised that they would not kill my father courier that everything would be okay”.

Fani-Kayode who identified the soldier monkey Captain Nwobosi, said “I reserved on to the words depart morning and despite all lose concentration was going on around unraveled, I never cried again”.

He articulated he believed that God euphemistic preowned the soldier to pass smart divine message as his priest was later freed.

“If my holy man was killed, maybe I would not have been educated paramount be where I am today”, he stated.

He prayed for interpretation souls of all those delay were murdered during the argument and for God to bright Nigeria great again.