He Died of Pancreatic Cancer – Family. Businessman Larry Otu says Oil and Gas Industry Has Lost A Major Player
The family of Nigeria’s oil mogul, Captain Nosa Okunbo, has revealed that its billionaire son died in a London hospital after battling pancreatic cancer. This came as the Nigeria’s business community has been hit by the shock of the bullionaire’s death.
Head of the family, Dr Tinyan Okunbo, of Orhua town in Uhunmwonde Local Government Area, Edo State in a statement, described late Capt Okunbo as a “crowned jewel, son, brother, father, husband, grandfather, philanthropist and business magnate.”
The statement by late Okunbo’s Media Consultant, Samuel Ajayi, said the family, however, thanked God for a life of service and dedication to humanity that the late businessman lived.
Platforms Africa, in the same vein, reports that Okunbo’s death has sent shock waves across the Nigeria’s business and political landscapes.
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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed grief over the passage of Captain Idahosa Okunbo, Chairman of Ocean Marine Solutions Limited at 63, saying the late business mogul contributed immensely to the development of Nigerian economy.
Also, Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and immediate past National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, have described Okunbo’s death as a loss to Edo State and humanity.
Similarly, doctors in the Commonwealth of Nations, Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Agba, have mourned Okunbo.
The Chief Executive Officer of Lym Consults Nigeria Limited Mr. Larry Mudiaga Otu has also expressed shock over the death of Oil and Gas magnate, Capt. Idahosa Wells Okunbo, describing his death as a very sad one.
In his reaction senr to Platforms Africa on Sunday in Asaba, the Delta State capital, Otu said that he received the news of the Edo State born billionaire businessman with a rude shock.
He lamented that a major player and employer of labour in the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry has been snatched away suddenly by the cold hands of death.
” I am still in deep shock over the sudden demise of a great son of Edo State, an elder brother, a distinguished Nigerian, a major player in the Oil and Gas industry and an accomplished philanthropist, Captain Idahosa Wells Okunbo. The news of his death came to me on Sunday afternoon as a rude shock. He was a major player in the Oil and Gas industry and an employer of labour who has helped greatly to get many Nigerians, especially those from the Oil rich Niger Delta Region out of the labour market. He touched many lives positively.
“Personally, I will miss him greatly because he was a wonderful team player, a kind hearted man and a man who believed strongly in fairness. I have known him over the years and I must say that his death has created a big vacuum in the Oil and Gas industry where he excelled very well and I had so much respect for him. His death is a big blow”, he said.
