Moji Olaiya's 20-year-old Daughter Warns Family Not To Bury Her Mother in Canada

Moji Olaiya breathed her last at 3am in an ambulance that was taking her to the hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest at her friend’s Ontario home.

Late Moji Olaiya and Daughter, Adun

The burial arrangement of recently deceased Yoruba actress, Moji Olaiya is causing an unexpected rift within the family. The late actress was a practising Muslim who converted from Christianity as an adult, and certain members of her family are suggesting that she be interred today according to Muslim rites.

However, her 20-year-old daughter, Adun is having none of that and insists that her mother’s corpse be brought back for burial in Nigeria. Although family members ushered her into a secluded room to calm her down, the grieving young lady kept repeating that she wants to see her mother. ‘She must be brought back,’ Adun said. ‘I don’t care what anybody says, I just want my mother’s body’.

It could however be difficult to bury her the same day as internments are costly in developed countries. In Canada where she died, funeral costs can rise as high as $15,000. Flying her body back on the other hand could cost around half that figure. There is no concrete plan for her burial at this minute.

In less than an hour, a crowd had besieged her Magodo house as many of them couldn’t believe the news that was filtering in. The disbelief soon turned into overwhelming sorrow when it was confirmed that the 42-year-old mother of two had indeed passed away.

Many of her colleagues among them, Ronke Odusanya, Doris Simeon, Bisi Ibidapo-Obe, Ronke Ojo (Oshodi Oke) whom we spotted there were still in a state of shock and could not convey in words the pain they were feeling.

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At press time, more people had arrived at the house requiring a tent to accommodate the grieving well wishers. Her aged mother sat in silence, looking blank as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her daughter.

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Moji Olaiya breathed her last at 3am in an ambulance that was taking her to the hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest at her friend’s Ontario home.

Moji Olaiya Aged Mother: Credit TheNet.NG

Moji Olaiya is survived by her two parents – her father is highlife icon Victor Olaiya, her two daughters – one aged 20 and the other only two months old – who she had gone to Canada to deliver. Credit: TheNet.NG