Th 82-year-old actress was buried same
day according to Islamic rites. Now, her children, in an interview with
Vanguard, have revealed the health issues she battled with, and how she
raised them as a single mother.
According to Claudius Akinwade Peter-Thomas, her second son:-
“There aren’t enough words to quantify
Mama. She was an independent woman who shouldered the responsibility of
raising three lions (sons) without raising her brows. I see her as a
lioness. She was also able to combine and manage her situation (single
motherhood) and her career. She was a good planner.
To that effect, my elder brother is nine
years older than me, and I am 11 years older than my younger brother. A
good planner she was. Despite being in the public glare, she ensured
her private life remained private. Many of my friends didn’t know I was
the (child) of the popular actress. This is not because she wasn’t proud
of her children, but because she was able to draw the line between her
career and her family. People relate with me as Raz CPT and not the
daughter of a celebrity, so to say.
Mummy has been struggling with her health, she had cancer of the breast, diabetic and was also hypertensive.”
Her last child, Kunle Fawole, described her last moments:
“I and mama were in the living room with
some of my friends when I noticed that her heart wasn’t moving, I mean
like she stopped breathing. Immediately, I checked her pulse and called
my elder brothers. We felt her pulse and heartbeat, did everything
possible. But alas, she has passed on. And that was at about 11:23 am on
Wednesday. She was a bit ill before this happened. She had been ill for
a number of years now. She had stroke some couple of years back. There
was a time she also had cerebral malaria. She became diabetic,
hypertensive and also suffered breast cancer before now.”
While her first son, 60-year-old Mr Alfred Oluwole Shoga, said:-
“At 60, my mother still gives me money
each time I visit her and I will say, `Mum I’m suppose to give you
money’ and she will say I should use it for transportation.”
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