CITIZENS COMPASS— The children of the late Gospel singer, Bunmi Akinnaanu popularly known as Omije-Ojumi on Thursday, clashed with their father, at her interment which was held at Atan Cemetery, Yaba, Lagos State.
The clash was captured in a series of viral videos as monitored by Citizens Compass.
The late singer was said to have borne two children for the former husband.
The clash arose when the man tried to clarify allegations of abandonment levelled against him by his daughter, Jomiloju unfortunately this resulted in a clash.
The former husband was represented by her relatives.
A man dressed in White had informed that the former husband was not in town as of the time of the burial but would like to pay his last respect to Omije-Ojumi in a telephone conversation.
As soon as the call came in, it was put on speaker and the man’s relative instructed the children to pick the call and talk to their father but they declined and this resulted in a heated argument whereby one of the children openly vent his anger towards his father.
This was later resolved and the man was put on speaker to pay his last respect but he started a long conversation of how he contacted the children in school and their mother was annoyed the and arrested all the school teachers.
The phone conversation was later discontinued to save time.
One of the relatives was seen shouting, “your father likes you,your father likes you…”
According to the caller, “I’m your daddy and have been looking for you. If you remember, I called your school years back when you were at Front Liner.
“I spoke to you through the school line and told you not to tell your mummy because she wouldn’t allow me to talk to you. I didn’t know how she found out and she arrested all the teachers in the school.”
The telephone conversation was in response to an allegation by Jomiloju that her father abandoned her.
Jomiloju made the allegation yesterday, during the Service of Songs organised by the family of the late singer.
It was held along Akowonjo Road, Egbeda area of Lagos at 6p.m.
According to Jomiloju: Thank you everybody for coming here to help us with my mum. My mum wrote a song for me because I was a blessed child to her, “Oluwa, ebe ni no be o, k’arate ma f’omo mi daamu mi” (Lord, I beg you, do not allow the evil ones to trouble my life with my child and vise versa).
My mother was the best woman in the world, the only one that made me feel special. Ever since my father left me, he did not care, he did not call. Imagine now, he has started calling when he knows that someone has left.
My mother was the best, she registered us in the best school to ensure that we have solid education. I can be a gynecologist and my brother can be an actor. It is a pity that she is leaving so early and did not wait to eat the fruit of her labour.
Everyday, she will call me and say Jomiloju, promise me you will always make me proud and I always reply to her, Mummy, I promise you I will never disappoint you.
I didn’t expect any of these things to happen to my mum. Although she was saying it, she tells me to always plan for tomorrow. Whenever my mum says something, it always comes to pass, but I took it as something just little even when she was limping on that leg, I told her, it wasn’t normal. She kept on telling me, everything was going to be fine.
My mother basically lived for us, her kids. My mother was respectful and she doesn’t beg, she’s always working to give us her children the best but today, she’s dead, and we her kids will have to continue where she stopped.
And I promised you mummy, I will take care of your baby boy, Bobby, Williams King Adeoye and I will make sure he becomes who you have always wanted him to: a prayer warrior, a man, as in a responsible man.
At the Service of Songs, Mr Femi Eretan, the husband to the immediate younger sister of Omije-Ojumi said the family decided to give her a befitting burial since her parents were no more and she was survived by children.
Akinnaanu was said to have died on Monday, January 12, 2026, as announced by her family.
She met her untimely death after battling with an incurable wound on her leg.
The death of the Gospel singer was announced on Tuesday, January 13, 2026.
