New reports have claimed Veteran actress, Bukky Ajayi, who passed away last week suffered from cancer, diabetes and other ailments.
In a chat with Vanguard recently, son to the late Nollywood icon, Claudius Akinwade Peter-Thomas, disclosed his mother suffered from several ailments before her passing.
He said:
"Mummy has been struggling with her health, she had cancer of the breast, diabetic and was also hypertensive"The last child of the actress, Kunle Fawole, popularly referred to as "Abounce", also confirmed reports of his mother's ill-health, further revealing he was seated with her when she passed away.
He said:
"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."Bukola Zainab Ajayi who died on July 6, 2016, was buried on the same day according to Islamic rites.
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