Host of morning show, ‘Your View’ on Television Continental, Morayo Afolabi-Brown, will not forget late Otunba Subomi Balogun in a hurry. Otunba Balogun, founder of First City Merchant Bank, FCMB, died two weeks ago in London, United Kingdom. The late philanthropist was a good friend of Afolabi-Brown’s father, Alao Aka-Bashorun, a legal luminary and civil society leader.
When Aka-Bashorun suffered a stroke, his speech was impaired. One of the people who offered him shoulders to lean on morally and financially was Otunba Balogun. He would abandon his work and visit his friend and contemporary. Each time he paid the family a visit on a Sunday, Otunba Balogun would hang around outside the Bashoruns’ residence till they returned from church so that he could have access to his friend.
Although Aka-Bashorun was so ill he couldn’t speak, Balogun would sit with him and have a one-way conversation for a few minutes before taking his leave. When leaving the house, he made sure to leave some money and other gifts for his friend’s upkeep and that of his family. He kept repeating the gesture until Aka-Bashorun bowed to the ailment.
The TV host paid glowing tribute to the late philanthropist while showering encomium on him for his good deeds, She also comforted the family he left behind.
