On November 1st, 2021, Wale Bob-Oseni, real estate guru and the Executive Director of the African Bureau for Legislative Empowerment was on his way to the airport, en-route US. He was already running late according to his driver when a call came into his phone and the caller was no other than Femi Osibona, the owner of Fourscore Homes, to check out the ongoing development at Gerard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos.
In a video that went viral some minutes after the collapse, a man believed to be
Bob-Oseni’s driver was seen crying, saying he was to take his boss to the Lagos International Airport.
According to him: “He was heading to America. I want to go and drop him in the airport,” the driver said in tears.
Both Femi and Wale Bob-Oseni got crushed to death in the 21-storey rubble.
His planned 50th birthday would eventually be his funeral.
