Nollywood actor and director, Kunle Afolayan, on Friday remembered veteran Yoruba actress, Toun Oni, eight years after she passed away.
In a post to Instagram, the 43-year-old revealed that she featured as his mother in his first film titled Irapada.
“Remembering Aunty Toun Oni. She featured as my mother in my first film ‘Irapada’ Redemption in 2006. Her support towards the completion of the film was enormous. Orun ‘re mama,” he wrote.
The actress reportedly died on her way to the hospital on July 7, 2010.
“She complained about not feeling too well last night and then this morning she felt very weak so we had to rush her to the St. Paul Hospital, Ebute-Metta, but she passed away before we arrived there,” her son, Toyin Oni, said.
She was popularly known as Mama Moji in Fuji House of Commotion – a weekly comedy programme on the television.
She won the Best Actress of the Year Award in 1991 – the first and only edition of the Herbert Ogunde Foundation Award for Theatre Artistes.
Her remains were laid to rest at Atan Cemetry, Akoka, Yaba on Friday, 23rd July 2010. She was aged 72.
