Babatunde Olagunju the first son of late Highlife maestro Fatai Rolling Dollar describes his father as a disciplinarian who even flogged his grown up children.
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The retired civil servant describes his father as a disciplinarian who carried out the biblical injunction of not sparing the rod and spoiling the child to the latter by caning any child who offends him no matter the age or size.
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‘My father did not spare the rod. He used to beat us whenever we did anything wrong. Even as old as I am, up till his death, he could use the cane on me if I offended him. None of us was too big for him to cane’ he told Punch Newspaper.
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The Highlife musician died on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at the age of 85 at Maritol Hospital, Surulere after a brief illness.
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