Osuntohun,
who also played popular roles other Ajileye productions of the ’90s, had
struggled with an undisclosed ailment for some years.
The Yoruba
movie industry has recorded another death of 2020 as one of its own, Alhaja
Musiliat Arikeusola, popular known as Osuntohun died on Friday.
The
67-year-old thespian who became popular playing roles of esoteric being in late
Yekinni Ajileye’s Koto Orun reportedly died on Friday morning in her house at
Ijetu area, Osogbo, Osun State.
Secretary of
Theatre Arts and Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria in Osun
State, Ademola Adedokun, confirmed her demise to newsmen.
According to
a statement by Adedokun, the late Osuntohun was described as a “passionate and
committed actress who gave her best to the vocation.”
Apart from
her appearances in Koto Orun, Aye Akamora, Koto Aye, all produced by late
Ajileye, Osuntohun also produced movies like ‘Omi Ipin,’ ‘Imi Esin’ and ‘Ogun
Omo Iya le’, which Adedokun said was her last work.
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