In her book ‘On Becoming’, Toke Makinwa revealed how a gas cylinder leak led to the fire incident that killed her parents when she was just 8-years-old.
Yesterday, she tweeted that before the ugly incident happened, her parents once joked about dying together and it eventually happened.
According to her, ‘they joked about dying together, perfect ride/die and it happened. They were buried side by side’.
Her father, Caleb Ifemayowa Makinwa was 35 while her mother, Modupe Monica Makinwa died at the age of 34.
My parents , (God rest their souls) had the best love story ever. I was young but I remember my dad’s eyes lit up every time he saw my mum
I remember she changed her hairstyle one time and he walked in and the first thing he noticed was her hair was different. I still remember
They joked about dying together, perfect ride/die and it happened. They were buried side by side.
