Okusanya’s Last Moments —Bosom Friend

The late MIC Funeral Services boss,  Tunji Okusanya, spent his last moments discussing how he was to turn the funeral undertaking business around.

His bosom friend, Gideon Ade Akingboye, revealed this P.M.NEWS in an interview Thursday in Lagos, western Nigeria.

Akingboye, who was saved by a stroke of luck from dying because he chose to travel by road to Ondo rather than board the 3 October ill-fated Associated Airline that crashed and took the lives of his friend, Okusanya, his son and 13 others, said the deceased was very obsessed about getting funeral services done the way it should.

According to him, Okusanya, in his usual style was keen on rendering a spectacular burial for the late  the former governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Agagu, both in Akure and Iju-Odo in Ondo State, which necessitated his travelling with the corpse.

He said the likable MIC boss never believed he will die in the next one or two decades as he was always full of life.

Akingboye added that though Okusanya’s first son, Olatunji Jnr., whom he was grooming to take over the running of the company from him, was available to handle the job, the late MIC boss was on the trip to honour Agagu.

“Tunji had done something for the Agagu in the past, I think when the in-law died. But Agagu even had to complain then that Tunji didn’t come personally to conduct the funeral service. So, when Agagu died, he chose to be there this time around,” Akingboye said.

He noted that the corpse of Okusanya and that of his son are yet to be released until the DNA issues are sorted out.
—Funsho Arogundade