'My mum fasted for three days after I revealed plans to marry Magoha,' Dr.Barbara Magoha says in tribute

She revealed that they met in 1979, when Magoha moved to Lagos to study medicine at the University of Lagos College of Medicine.

According to Barbara, fate seemed to have woven their fates together; while she was supposed to fly out of the country for a scholarship, Magoha was set to settle for a scholarship in Zambia.

She told mourners that she never got to leave the country, and that her late husband ended up in Lagos rather than Zambia, kicking off their 40-year love story.

Barbara, a doctor by trade, went on to describe how she told her mother that she would marry Magoha just one month after they met.

'My mum asked me for some time during which she fasted for three days and vowed she would not be leaving the church until she had her answer," Dr. Barbara said. 

Barbara recalled that on the third day, her mother left her spiritual retreat with a vision of Magoha as a great man who would need Barbara by his side.

"My mum had a vision in 1940 that my husband was destined to be a great man, but that he would be needing me by his side," she added. 

Barbara's mother placed two requirements before agreeing to let Magoha marry her daughter: first, Barbara had to graduate; second, Magoha had to care for her (his mother-in-law) as well.

"My husband paid for my mums air fare every year untll she died in 2008, she had become my husband's spriritual godmother," 

According to Dr. Barbara, the late Magoha lived his life on three tenets; God who created him, Starehe that molded him and medicine. 

'He did everything with medical precision,.. you take history which is the problem, investigate make a diagnosis and make a decisio," 

On his demise, Dr. Barbara told mourners that she has accepted that her husband is no more, and thanked God for the 40 years she was together with her late husband. 

"I thank God and I have accepted, we were a team, he looked over my back and I looked over his ," 

Magoha, son of Magoha has exited the stage when the ovation was loudest, thank you for celebrating his life with me,"