Ex-NPA’s Managing Director, Bayo Sarumi Loses Wife

Chief (Mrs.) Oluwakemi Sarumi, wife of former Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Chief Adebayo Babatunde Sarumi, is dead.

Sarumi, in a statement on Friday, said his wife of many years died on Friday 16th October 2020 after a brief illness.

Sarumi, who is the titleholder of Parakoyi of Ibadan Land, said the remains of his wife would be interred in a date to be announced later this month.

The statement reads: “I lost my wife, my darling, my heart-warming desire left this sinful world to be with her creator on 16th October 2020.

“As much I would love to have my wife with me for the next 30 years, I cannot question the omnipotent, omniscience and omnipresence God who has decided to take her away to be with him.”

A successful businesswoman, the late matriarch of the Sarumi family was seen as a major pillar of her husband who served as Managing Director of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) from 1996 to 2003 and as Managing Director of NPA from October 2003 to May 2007.

Chief Adebayo Sarumi is regarded as the father of the modern day seaports in Nigerian. He executed the Federal Government’s port reforms programme during his tenure culminating in port concession and the involvement of private firms in the provision of marine services and port channel dredging.

Chief (Mrs.) Sarumi is survived by her husband and five children.

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