hello there.: Sosoliso crash 10 years on:Pastor Taiwo remembers late Bimbo Odukoya

Ten years ago today, the ill-fated Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 carrying 100 people from Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport in Abuja crashed and erupted in flames at the Port Harcourt International Airport. 7 people were rescued from the burning plane, but only two survived the horror.60 of the victims were young students of Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja, many of whose parents unfortunately witnessed the crash. Also, Pastor Bimbo Odukoya of the Fountain of Life Bible Church was one of the victims of the crash.

Today, her husband, Pastor Taiwo Odukoya, took to his Instagram page to remember her.“It is exactly ten years since the grim incident that led to the passing of my late wife, ‘Bimbo Odukoya,” he wrote, “yet, as I look through the years, I am awash with feelings of gratitude. God, in His character, has been faithful. I am particularly grateful for the life that ‘Bimbo lived and the legacies she left behind.”

“It is incredible that ten years after her passing, her teachings continue to impact families, and the initiatives she drove while with us, are still here, touching the nations. Indeed, only God could have chosen an eager teenage girl and built her into a woman of international repute, to His glory alone. Only God could have given such a unique assignment and given the grace to run with it.

“And only God could have determined when the curtains were drawn. If there is therefore any lesson we must consciously strive to remember, it is that there is a divine calling and assignment on every life God created. As we celebrate ‘Bimbo today, let us stop to ask ourselves: ‘am I truly in the place of my assignment? am I living the life God intended?’ This should drive your life’s philosophy as it did hers. The world will celebrate your influence in Jesus name”. May her soul continue to rest in peace Amen.”