Remi Oyo ! Everday We Feel Your Absence by Wale Ojo Lanre

Former Commissioners , Special advisers

Officers in Immigration , Custom , Police ,

Accomplished journalists in many newspapers houses

Entrepreneurs through your Scheme

You ensured that each of us got a job that fits our aspiration

You encouraged us , support us both psychologically and financially despite fixing us all

You taught us the culture of being passionate with whatever we are saddled it

“ko se gate na gbe o si , so gate ni dada ju hian egbe re

( If you are posted to man the gate , be watchful more than the others )

“It is that extra – mile that will keep you ahead “

It is working for us all

You never allowed us to be caught in the embarrassment of daily needs

Anti Remi,you were there for us

Your flat in Joseph Harrison Street Iwaya Onike ,Yaba

Was the refuge for all

Your two wonderful children , Otte and Okemute

Never looked down on us as dependents

who were always in the house to beg for food or money or job

Anti , we enjoyed the House better when you were not in

Particularly when the warm and friendly Uncle Vincent was to be around

He too never considered us a bunch of nuisance – in – law

Who were always on the ground to disturb the peace of the family

You agreed and lived up to the Yoruba dictum

Olowo kan larin awon to ku die fun

Yes , you lived up beyond our imaginations

While you used the old Renault car for so long

You encouraged , facilitated and network and opened doors

for us where we got means to buy exotic cars , better than yours

Most times , you will be the one supplying the fund or the batteries or tyres if any of the cars packed up along Ibadan – Lagos Expressway

It took your family so long a time to own a house of yours

in Lagos

But you encouraged and part financed some of us to live in our houses before the completion of yours

You encouraged us to read and improve on our status

One of the ways into your wallet is educational advancement

You never wary .

You were indeed and in need a mother

You chastised with love

You rectified mistakes and misbehaviour with correctional platitudes

You clothed us when we were naked

You fed us when hungry

And they think we will not miss you ?

We are missing you

The shoe you left has no feet to wear

Too big , too large and too expansive

Okun o , anti mi

Okun o anti ayiye

Omo Olekedooba , L’Usi -Ekiti

omo Owa omo ekun

omo orire ndade

SUN RE LORUN !