YORUBA PLAYWRIGHT, AKINWUNMI ISOLA TOOK SPOONFUL OF CUSTARD MINUTES BEFORE DEATH, SAYS WIDOW

“Early this morning, we had a nurse who came and gave him his bath. I prepared custard for him. I put milo in it. As I was trying to feed him, he was just saying ‘Thank you my wife’ repeatedly’. He has always been saying that anyway; even when his friends were around, he would ask them to thank me that I am the reason he was not dead yet,” she said.

She further added that, she was worried when he took just a spoonful of custard because he used to eat very well, saying that prompted her to immediately call the doctor.

“I called the doctor. I also called the children, who are all living in Lagos that their father was just praying and not taking his breakfast. He sat on the chair in his room upstairs. He did not say more than ‘Thank you my wife’. The nurse and I laid him on the bed. He immediately gave up the ghost. That was around 9:30 a.m. Even, the doctor I called and the children were yet to arrive when he gave up. Two of the children are around now. .”

Penpushing report that, among the children of the deceased, Akinjide Ishola, a Lagos-based lawyer and Oluwatoyin  Shomefun, arrived Ibadan on Saturday, while as at the time of filing this report the remains of the deceased was taken to the Anatomy Department, University of Ibadan.(