LAGOS, Nigeria – The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission, NCPC, Bishop Stephen Adegbite, has paid a condolence visit to the widow of Late Jerusalem Pilgrim, Pastor Magistrate Olasanmi Ogunkanmi, at their Ikorodu residence in Lagos this Friday, 17th January, 2025.
The Executive Secretary sympathised with Mrs Ogunkanmi over the sudden demise of Magistrate Ogunkanmi.
He urged her to have faith in God and rest assured that the deceased had gone to rest in the bosom of his maker.
Bishop Adegbite affirmed that it was not an accident that late Magistrate Ogunkanmi died the night he successfully returned from performing holy pilgrimage in Jerusalem, which makes his death providential.
According to the NCPC boss, “Your husband lived a well fulfilled life on earth, it is therefore not how long one lives on earth that matters but how well,” he said.
He prayed that the good Lord will certainly comfort the family at this moment of their bereavement.
He assured her of the support of the Commission for a successful burial of the Worthy JP of the Commission and a Pilgrimage Ambassador of Nigeria.
It would be recalled that the late Magistrate Olasanmi Ogunkanmi performed his last pilgrimage exercise to Jerusalem with the first batch of Lagos pilgrims, he was filled with excitement and satisfaction on his return on 1st January, 2025. He slept off peacefully that night but never woke up again.
The NCPC boss had earlier visited his family residence in Kado, Abuja, last Monday, where he commiserated with his family members.
The remains of Late Magistrate Olasanmi Ogunkanmi, 58, will be committed to mother earth on 7th February, 2025, in Lagos, after a Service of Songs on 6th February, 2025.
