Week, Mariam Ajibola and Mohammed Chaanda started a GoFundMe page for Piety Mosque to raise money for Hammed’s medical care. Later, the page was modified to include money for his funeral.
The organizers claim that Hammed, a 36-year-old Lagos native from Ayete, Oyo State, traveled to the UK in September of last year to start a Master’s program.
The organizers claimed that despite receiving a cancer diagnosis earlier this year, he overcame the mental and physical challenges to finish his program.
was the last of four children in the family, “the joyful heart of his home,” pleasant, amiable, and devoted to others, according to the organizers.
the GoFundMe effort, its condition rapidly deteriorated in recent weeks.
The campaign also said that once doctors deemed him ill unfit to travel, attempts to fly him back to Nigeria so he could spend his last days with family were shelved.
organizers asked for help to provide him with a respectable funeral in the UK as there was no way to return his remains.
The petition said, “We are raising funds to give Hammed a dignified burial,” adding that each donation will honor his life and lessen the strain on his bereaved family.
The GoFundMe page revealed that the organizers had held the donation as of Sunday after raising over £6,000, despite the fact that an estimated £5,000 was required to cover a 50-year lease on a burial plot and the coffin.
a few days after Chiowa Obeigbe, another Nigerian living in the UK, was discovered dead in his Gloucester apartment five days after he was thought to be dead.
