In a conversation with The Punch correspondent, Mrs. Funmilayo Ogunseyi, the mother of the former queen of the Ooni of Ife, described the agonizing experience of her daughter, Naomi Silekunola, following the stampede that killed 35 children in Ibadan and how it occurred.CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
While she was narrating what went wrong before the commencement of the event, she said for all the events she had organized in the past, she always relied on speaking to locals in the town where the event would take place. The locals were the people who guided her on what needed to be done because she couldn’t handle everything on her own, so she would reach out to people in the city or town to assist with organizing the event. And the same approach was also used for the Ibadan funfair.
She claimed while they were planning the Ibadan funfair, some of her team members mentioned Agidigbo FM to her. They told her about Mr. Hamzat Oriyomi, who could help promote the event. This was important because she had never organized such an event in Ibadan before. She and Mr. Oriyomi had never met before as well but the event connected them together.
She said, “We got a place in Moniya for the event, but Mr Oriyomi advised that the place was too small.
That was how we got the venue we used at the Islamic High School, Basorun. It was a help that he rendered because he even paid for the place by himself.”
Further talking, she said, “From our observation, the place was spacious enough to accommodate what we envisaged. We had held programmes in schools before; so, we agreed to use the venue Mr Oriyomi suggested.
As I stated earlier, in all the events we had organised, including a teens’ crusade we had some years back, there was no casualty.”CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
