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With bouquets of white roses on his casket and multiple wives by the side, the father of Nigerian comedy, Chief Moses Olaiya Adejumo MON, popularly known as Baba Sala, was buried on a symbolic note in Ilesha at the weekend.

White roses are traditionally associated with marriages and new beginnings, but they spoke volumes at the burial of Baba Sala who married not less than 20 wives in his lifetime and left behind 70 children.

Eight of the surviving wives filed out beside Baba Sala’s casket as the world bade him a final farewell. They were identified as Rachel, Tayo, Caroline, Segun, Remi, Funke, Bose, and his eldest wife, Bolanle, who acted the role of the comedian’s famous daughter, Sala, in his plays.

Close relations told NewsmakersNG that Baba Sala had admonished his daughters never to protest if their husbands chose to marry other wives.

NewsmakersNG also learnt that in his heydays, the late Baba Sala allotted apartments to...http://www.newsmakersng.com/70-children-several-wives-bade-baba-sala-farewell/

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Not less than 20 wives and 70 children? Meaning dey don't even know d number of wives he has..

Only one man? many among them are not his own