Nazizi lost her Jazeel Adam Tanaka on Christmas Day December 25, 2023, after he fell off a hotel balcony during a family vacation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Three months after the tragic incident, Nazizi ultimately gathered the strength to talk about Adam’s death in a bid to end speculations and rumors.
Speaking during an interview with Nation, Nazizi set the record straight on how her 3-year-old son met his death.
“The pain of losing my child has only been made worse by conspiracy theories being thrown around it. Bloggers have been peddling wrong information that’s hurting my family. There’s a blogger who started spreading rumours about the accident without verifying any information and that’s wrong,” Nazizi said.
The veteran musician recounted the events of the fateful day that her son died.
“I had gone to meet my cousin, Jaffarai, a popular musician in Tanzania. I was still with Jaffarai when the call came. I was told to go to the hospital because there had been an accident involving my son. He was with his dad and I couldn’t understand why I was being told there was an accident. We rushed to the hospital, but it was too late by the time we got there,” she said.
Nazizi noted that her son fell off the balcony. She however refuted claims of negligence on the part of her husband who was watching over their son while she was away.
“I had left my husband to bond with our son as I went to meet some of my relatives in Dar es Salaam. We had just dropped my father, who was also on the holiday trip, in the Kigamboni area to meet some of our other relatives.
“My dad has been in and out of hospital in the recent past, and wanted to check up on his relatives in Tanzania; that’s one of the reasons for the trip.
“Bloggers say my husband was on the phone when the accident happened, but that’s not true. The hotel room was spacious and he allowed our son to move around freely, just boys being boys, you know.
“There’s no way he would have expected such an accident to happen and he is even more traumatised. What had started as a lovely family road trip ended up in pain and tears,” she narrated.
Nazizi added that they had to drive back to Nairobi with her son’s body because of the complicated process of flying a deceased.
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