Biola Okoya, daughter of billionaire businessman Razak Okoya, recently celebrated the third anniversary of the death of her first son, Ayodeji Akinwande Modupe-Johnson.
Modupe-Johnson died of sckle cell anaemia in June 2020 at the age of 24. He was diagnosed with the disease when he was three years-old.
The founder of Trinity House, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, officiated at the funeral of the deceased via zoom as a result of the restriction placed on movement because of COVID-19 pandemic. Ighodalo conducted the service despite the fact that he was still mourning the death of his wife who passed on a few days earlier.
Okoya laid fresh flowers on her late son’s grave in remembrance of his death. A few months after he passed on, she founded an organisation aimed at providing support to people suffering sickle cell anaemia and raising awareness of the disease. Christened Ayodeji Akinwande Sickle Cell Foundtion, it was also meant to immortalise late Modupe-Johnson.
