Though she had been in a coma for close to three weeks, it was with
shock that Nigerians received news that gospel music star and Branama
Queen, Kefee Obareki, had passed on to the great beyond abruptly
terminating a career spanning over a decade.
According to reports, three weeks ago, the singer, who was rumoured
to be six months pregnant, had collapsed aboard a 14-hour flight to
Chicago. Consequently, the aircraft had to make an emergency landing in
Los Angeles where Kefee received urgent medical attention. Though her
family is yet to comment, reports on social media claim that the singer
had been diagnosed with pre-eclampsia – pregnancy induced high blood
pressure and was on life support.
While Nigerians waited with baited breaths, her husband, Teddy
Don-Momoh of Star FM confirmed her deteriorating health status when he
went on twitter to appeal to Nigerians to pray for his beloved wife as
doctors had revealed that her condition was critical.
Overnight, social media was overflowing with prayers for the star.
Unfortunately, the singer reportedly gave up the ghost yesterday, after a
three week battle thus throwing the entertainment industry into a
mourning mood weeks after another denizen, Amaka Igwe, collapsed and
died on set in Enugu.
Even in death, Kefee’s light continues to shine as she was a
frontline gospel music star. With four albums to her credit and a number
of hits, she would go down as one of Nigeria’s most successful
contemporary gospel musicians.
However, even in death, her broken marriage continues to haunt her.
Reports have emerged that a certain pastor in Abuja had placed a curse
on her due to an interview she granted a junk magazine earlier in the
year where the late singer had alleged that the said pastor dropped her
from a show his church was organizing because of her marriage break up
to her ex-husband, Alec Godwin, in 2008. In the said interview, Kefee
had made an allusion to the sex scandal which rocked the pastor’s church
to its very foundations. Sources said the pastor got angry and placed a
curse on her.
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