Profiles of victims

Trained as an engineer, Tunji Okusanya ran MIC, a funeral home in Lagos. He was also one of the celebrity go-to undertakers in Nigeria. His choice of career was influenced by his father, who dealt in caskets.

He attended Christ Church Cathedral, and after school, would go and work at his father’s shop located on Lagos Island.

Although he was trained as an engineer, Okusanya never practised as one. He attended a technical school in the United Kingdom offering degree programmes. He lived in the UK for seven years before returning to Nigeria.

The name of his father’s company was Magbamowo Industrial Company. He picked the first letter of each word to arrive at MIC. He started MIC in 1982.

He was a Christian.

Deji Falae

Deji Falae, was a Law graduate from the Obafemi Awolowo University. He was the Commissioner for Tourism in Ondo State until his death. He had previously worked at West One Resources Limited and Gold Estates Limited.

He headed a panel set up by the State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, in the course of an enquiry into the activities of the local government councils in the state, to ascertain the actual number of authentic workers legally employed by the state government.

The panel was saddled with the responsibility of fishing out ghost workers in the establishment and uncovering some of the workers who were in the payroll of the local councils but were illegally employed.