The boss of Movida nightclub, Akeem Shodeinde, is dead. Sources revealed that the man popularly known as ‘the General’ died on Sunday morning in is Lekki, Lagos home.
Information pieced together by The Eagle Online has it that the club owner who died as a result of excessive drinking and smoking had been suffering from different serious ailments which eventually killed him on Sunday morning.
Akeem was said to have been managing a kidney problem which he always cast as a joke about in the public, saying ‘don’t you know I have only one kidney? Nothing can kill me again!’. His last days are revealed to have been pitiful as he was badly beaten by the sickness which ravaged all his body.
He was said to have been kept in isolation with only few of his family members been allowed to see him.
Further checks confirmed that there was plan to fly him abroad but pleas for support fell on deaf ears as many of his close friends didn’t show up to save his life.
Until his death, Akeem was said to have been totally indebted to many people, many of the debts he incurred in gambling, giving reasons why adequate medical attention could not be given to him.
Akeem started his nightclub career with Do It All, later he managed Xtreme Nightclub which was owned by Kamal Boustani, he moved to Reloaded before he finally floated his Movida nightclub which closed down long before his death.