Tears, remembrance as Candle light procession is conducted for Ifelaw graduate, Joy
Sunday evening saw the Candle light procession for one of
OAU’s bright minds, Queen Ananwureyi Ohine Joy who sadly passed away on August
14 2021. She was a graduate of the Faculty of Law, OAU and was a member of the
Association of Campus Journalists ( ACJ) while on campus.
The procession which was organized by the Ajayi Oluwafemi ( Efem
Castro) led Students’ Union Electoral Commission proceeded from SUB to
Akintola, then to Faj and Moremi before moving to Law, and then back to the SUB.
While paying Joy her last homage, her roommate, Fadeelat said,
"we were roommates, we stayed on the same floor for four good sessions,
and we were roommates twice, I don't know what to say honestly because
everything reminds me of Joy. Even when Joy was going through a lot of things,
she will still put a smile on her face, she will still come to my bed saying
'Fadeelat what is wrong with you'. In first semester, Part 5, Joy had an attack
that she was in coma for days and this made her miss exam and she was unable to
go to Law school with her mates.”
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“But then Joy will tell me she wants them to mark her paper,
she wants to do this, she wants to do that, she wants to be a Barrister, even
if she is not a Barrister, she wants to write a book but she didn't live to
fulfill all that. Every session, they change your room and you meet another set
of people but when I met Joy as my roommate again, I was happy. Joy is someone
that is selfless, she will be like Fadeelat have you eaten, Fadeelat have you
cooked, I believe she is an angel. Nobody is perfect, we had our times that I
will just tell her Joy please leave me alone, but she is close to perfection,
she is one roommate I will never forget. The last time we met was at Oshogbo
because we both live at Oshogbo and she was telling me she wants to do her
Masters, Joy wanted to pursue her masters despite not being to law school but
then it is well, may her soul rest in peace”, Fadeelat disclosed.
In his farewell speech, the Speaker, Law Students
Representative Council, Awosusi Opeyemi said, “Good evening everyone, the death of joy came
as a shock to everyone including me. My first contact with her was when I was
in Part 1, our coming into the faculty, she was one of the people that accepted
us even though we were newvites in the faculty but we had someone who we could
always go to at every point of our need, she has gone to rest now with her
savior, however, her memory will forever linger in our hearts”.
“She was a very peaceful person, always smiling, loved by
all and sundry in the faculty, her transmission to the world beyond is only
testament and confirmation that this world and everything in it is ephemeral,
it only buttresses how transient life is, everyone of us, one day will surely
leave this world, however, the people we have impacted and our legacy, what we
are known for will continue to remininsce in the heart of everybody. On behalf
of the Executive council and LSS as a whole, I will like to condole with her
family and it’s our prayer that Almighty God accept her gentle soul into
Paradise. Thank you very much, he noted and prayed.
Another student who knows her also praised her saying, “She
is a very wonderful senior colleague, the first time I spoke to her, she was so
calm, receptive. Anytime you see her like you will see this joy, she is always
smiling, easy to approach, I don't know, its painful honestly, I just pray that
God comforts her family, I pray she rests in perfect peace and I pray that one
day, at the end of our lives, we see each other again and laugh at last”.
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