My birthday columns are not exaggerated expressions or just weaving words into lines to hype individuals without merit. My birthday writings are significant to celebrate individuals who are making meaningful impact in the lives of the people around them and the community by extension. This propel the need to join the league of well wishers to celebrate the man of honor, a successful entrepreneur, Muhydeen Okunlola Kayode, founder of MOK Foundation.

Today, 15th of November marks the day an icon, a rare gem, and a great man of the masses was born in Offa, Kwara State. His impressive personality is a reflection of his kind, generous, humble, cordial, and interpersonal relationships between and among people living around him. Muhydeen Okunlola Kayode is an illustrious son of Offa who uses his influence and affluence to cater for the needs of the people at the grassroots.

My definition of a fulfilled life varies and is not measured by big mansions, or exotic cars, a fulfilled person is someone who sees other people’s problems as a challenge that must be tackled; a fulfilled personality is someone who impacts meaningfully on the lives of people devoid of ethnicity, bias, and sentiment. In all ramifications, MOK is a fulfilled personality. He sees individual difficulties as a challenge that must be cleared, and always channels his human and material resources to assist the needy and the less privileged.

Like the word of Shakespeare, greatness can be inborn, inherited, and attained through hard work and diligence, Muhydeen Okunlola Kayode is a beneficiary of God’s favor to achieve greatness in life. Through hard work and diligence, his name rings a bell in the nooks and crannies of Offa community and Kwara State to a large extent. His high level of intelligence, influence, and intellectual capacity as a Surveyor of repute do not stop him from relating freely and harmoniously with people at the grassroots. His humility is refined in his simplicity.

Allah says in the Holy Quran that those who spend charitably from what He has provided for them will have a reserved place in paradise, to buttress this are those martyrs who were given the certificates to paradise right from their lifetime. Those martyrs remain and alive spending for charity. They are in different localities assisting people and giving hope to the hopeless.

Muhydeen Okunlola Kayode no doubt, is one of the rare gems on earth whose existence remains a blessing to mankind, to their family, and to their immediate community. He gives without looking back, he spends extensively to ameliorate poverty at the grassroots, he is a philanthropist par excellence and a community developer whose love and passion for his community remain indefatigable.

As part of the traits of those who made an impact, he aspires to carve a niche for himself positively through his humanitarian service delivery — where history does not forget individuals. MOK actually deserves meaningful commendation for his philanthropic gestures and eradication of humanity’s greatest deprivations such as poverty, unemployment, hunger, health, security, education among others. On a birthday like this, a series of congratulations in their droves cannot be sufficient! Individuals need to ask themselves what they are doing with their wealth and position. Your life cannot be separated from what you do.

Offa is blessed with notable illustrious sons and daughters making waves in different fields of endeavor across the globe. MOK is one of these numerous numbers of fulfilled Offa sons and daughters. He sees the world as transient and beyond himself, he is a consistent personality in the delivery of promises. You cannot have him around you and feel insecure. He is one of the heroes who found their way into the pages of History, where those who made change possible can never be forgotten.

Congratulations to the surveyor of repute, pious philanthropist, giver of charity, generous personality, community developer, and a man of the people on his birthday. May it not be the last celebration on earth. Many more prosperous years ahead in more wealth and sound health. May your tomorrow be greater than today. Ameen!