Late MIC boss’s daughter, Bolanle Okusanya-Feyita: “Why I floated LTJ Funeral Services”

Bolanle Okusanya is the daughter of late MIC boss, Tunji Okusanya who died 18 months ago in a plane crash along with his son Tunji junior. They were on their way to Ondo State to bury former Ondo Governor Olusegun Agagu’s corpse. Since the death of her father in 2013, this Imperial College London graduate of International Business has taken her fathers business to the next level by simply upping the game.

One of the moves she’s made is to set up LTJ Funeral Services to keep the memory of her father and only brother alive. If her dad did not die, he will have been 60 that year and his brother, so LTJ, coined from their name, Olatunji, has been set up by Bolanle to actualise the unfulfilled dreams of her father and brother.

Last week Tuesday, she told City People Publisher, SEYE KEHINDE why she floated the outfit to run alongside her late father’s company MIC.

Why was there a need to set up this funerals company?

Its a 2-in-1 company. The company is called LTJ Funerals International and the other one is the Olatunji Okusanya Memorial Foundation. I set both of them up in memory of both my father and my brother, the late Tunji Snr. and Tunji Junior Okusanya. I worked for my father for about 20 years, from when we were in school. Because I live in London a lot of people didn’t realise the work that I do. He used to do a lot of business internationally and that’s the area that I worked on and handled for him that was my responsibility. We death with a lot of embassies, and a lot of people who lost their loved ones outside of in Nigeria. We also had a lot of things that were in progress. My brother died at the age of 30 and my dad was to have been 60 when he passed away. The reality that I had was that when I opened my brothers office I saw all the projects and proposals we had written together on his table. We used to do a lot of work together, I did Mass Communication for my Masters and I did International Business for my degree at Imperial College, London. That is what I did for other companies as well I used to write proposals for them.

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