Veteran Nollywood actor Femi, Taiwo Ogunrombi better known as Papa Ajasco is dead.
Gatekeepers News report that his death was confirmed by a theatre practitioner, Husseini Shaibu, via his Twitter handle
Popular for his role in Wale Adenuga’s Comedy series.
His demise was confirmed by reliable sources at Ben Carson College of Medicine at Babcock University Teaching Hospital owned by the Seventh Day Adventist, SDA church, where he breathed his last.
Also, a Theatre practitioner, Shaibu Hesseini confirmed his death.
Hussein said, ” I have just been reliably informed that ethnomusicologist, former Music Instructor with the National Troupe Of Nigeria and one time stand in for the ‘Papa Ajasco’ character on the popular WAP Comic Series ‘Papa Ajasco’ Mr. Femi Ogunrombi is DEAD.
“I am told that the actor, singer, highlifist and trained Nurse whom we fondly called ‘Uncle Ogurombo’ (not to his hearing though) passed on this evening”, he wrote on his social media pages.
Femi Ogunrombi, popularly called Taiwo by members of his church, the SDA took over the character, Papa Ajasco from the former Abiodun Ayoyinka after he left the show.
He was the leader of the Adventist male Agapella group known as The Ambassadors and Music/Choir Director of the SDA church Yaba, Lagos.
Ogunrombi attended Adventist Grammar school Ede between 1970-1974 after which he proceeded to SDA School of Nursing Ile Ife where he became a certified Nurse.
He was said to have died of liver failure .
