Indeed like a Castle built on a sandy beach, gone too soon Oga Eko Effiom Osim! The last I saw you was at Flt Lt Aminu Sabo's Wedding Reception at Abuja where we were happy together at the High Table. Little did I know that was to be our last meeting, I could have stayed to listen more to your ever wise real life experience usual stories.
Yours was an ever lively, happy and inspired life anyone would wish to live. You have a spartan Fulani like energy, a Godly heart full of love, inspiration, kindness, generosity and above all, like late Professor Chukwuma Osakwe as well, you were full of wisdom and knowledge about everything. How I wish you had written some books or contributed to journals such that the knowledge could be retrieved!
Well God knows the best and as it was time, you had to leave as stated at The Holy Books of Quran at Suratul Baqiya (about time) and the Bible Ecclesiastes 3:1 "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." So it is God's doing and we have no say.
Adious AVM EE Osim, may God grant us the fortitude to bear the loss Sir
Sani