Lasun Alagbe
Multi-talented artist and one-time actor of Papa Ajasco, Femi Ogunrombi, is dead.
He was said to have departed the earth on Saturday, days after the country lost another seasoned filmmaker and founder of the African Movie Academy Awards, Peace Anyiam-Osigwe.
Another veteran actor and producer of old TV drama, ‘Feyikogbon’, Sunday Akinola, also died recently.
So also was actor Kamal Adebayo, father of popular skit maker, Isbae, who departed days earlier.
An alumnus of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Ogunrombi was a consultant musicologist, teacher, composer, actor, producer, director film/music as he highlighted in one of his profiles.
He was also said to be a ‘professional nurse’
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His death was confirmed by a theatre practitioner, Husseini Shaibu, via his Twitter handle on Sunday.
He wrote, “I have just been reliably informed that the ethnomusicologist, former Music Instructor with #NATIONALTROUPE and one time stand in for the ‘Papa Ajasco’ character on the popular #waleadenugaprod comic series ‘Papa Ajasco’ Mr. Femi Ogunrombi is dead.
“I am told that the actor, singer, highlifist and trained nurse whom we fondly called ‘Uncle Ogurombo’ (not to his hearing though) passed on this evening (Saturday)”
Ogunrombi was, however, not to be confused with Abiodun Ayoyinka, who was had earlier played the role of Papa Ajasco, in the Wale Adenuga’s Comedy series, ‘Papa Ajasco’.
