I Found Out About My Burnt House On Social Media – AY Makun

Popular Comedian and actor, AY Makun, has recalled how the news of his house on fire reached him via social media.

The comedian’s house was gutted by a fire in August 2023.

Featuring on the Toke Moments podcast, the renowned comic narrated the series of incidents that led to the discovery of his house fire.

He said he was on tour in Canada and was completely unaware his house was on fire back home.

He said: “I woke up and i saw about 78 missed calls and I didn’t know what was going on. So I woke up to these calls and I knew something has happened, so the first thing that I saw when I opened my phone was my house on fire on Instablog, that’s how I found out. I was in Canada on a tour at the time.”

Makun, who saw the fire as a blessing, said although, materials were lost lives were preserved.

He said the day the fire occurred, his wife and kids were out of the country so when he makes jokes about the fire, it’s him being thankful to God.

In his words: “That was my point of thanksgiving, knowing fully well that my family was on holidays. So when people see me and people are like ‘He’s still doing what he does best’ I say it’s my thanksgiving because will I be talking about a house that is aflame or the set of thing that got burnt in that house if I lose my family? No. I would be devastated, gone and a living corpse, so my thanksgiving is that we were all away.”

Makun further clarified that the fire was caused by an electrical appliance and it started from the top floor of the building.

Source: The Nation

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