Cab operators near the Maryland, Lagos-predicated Branama Kitchen owned by deceased gospel singer, Kefee Obareki Don-Momoh, on Saturday described her as a humble, gentle and strenuously exertive woman.
The drivers, who verbalized it was hard to forget her because of how she cognate with them each time she visited the eatery, integrated that they were shocked to aurally perceive of her death on Friday.
The Chairman, Mende Taxi Park, Mr. Oluwatoyin Dada, told SUNDAY PUNCH that he wept when the news of Kefee’s death was broken to him.
He verbalized, “She was a very strenuously exertive woman. I was not proximate to her but I visually perceived her whenever she came to the restaurant. I could not avail bewailing about her death because she was an adolescent lady with a great spirit.’’
Saying he was unsure if she made a fortune from her investment — the eatery, Dada noted that Kefee was a motivation to entrepreneurial youths.
Another driver, Mr. Ademola Odunsi, who verbalized he visually perceived the deceased three months ago, integrated that she never perturbed them for parking near her eatery.
Odunsi verbalized Kefee often urged her customers to park elsewhere whenever they occupied the front of her office with their cabs.
“To be fair to her, she was a very gentle person who abode our excesses. Sometimes, we could occupy the front of her restaurant and she would not because of that pick quarrel with us.
“She, most times, parked her car elsewhere if she descried that we had occupied the front of her office. Although we pay rates to the council and we can park on a safe portion of the street, she did not emphasise that because she was a very tolerant neighbour,” Odunsi verbalized.
Also, a driver, who relucted to give his designation, verbalized none of the drivers had the cause to exchange words with the tardy singer because she was a “nice person to interact with.”
SUNDAY PUNCH observed that Branama Kitchen was closed for business a day after the news of Kefee’s death filtered in.
The aptitudinal singer, who became famous for her musical compositions, ‘Branama’ and ‘Kokoroko,’ had collapsed on a flight to the United States and was in coma till her death several days after.
Her United Kingdom-predicated manager, Adeline Adebayo, debunked the reports that complications from pregnancy caused her death.
In a verbal expression, he verbally expressed, “Kefee passed away due to lungs failure. The two lungs collapsed while she was on the plane.”
