
12/07/2024
Kola Olawuyi, The Investigative Journalist Who Exposed Reverend King
When news of Kola Olawuyi's death broke, the default reaction from most people was that the witches and ritualists he exposed finally got to him and killed him. Some said he cut down a tree around his house after he was warned not to, leading to his death.
Others claimed that some occultic groups he belonged to even decapitated him after his death because he was one of them. To dispel all these rumors, his family had to arrange an open burial and open casket for the 44-year-old so everyone could see that he died of natural causes and wasn't mutilated or harmed in any way.
But then again, Olawuyi leaned into the mystery while he was alive. Perhaps he even encouraged it.
Whenever it was 8 PM on Fridays and you heard Hubert Ogunde's "Sigba Awo" (open the occultic calabash) start playing on Kola Olawuyi's *Iriri Aye* program, you knew it was going to be a gripping and intense night.
© Femi Yanmife Akinsola.