Announcing the death of his mother on Instagram, Charly Boy said Mrs Oputa died on Tuesday, October 8, 2019, at the age of 101. 

He wrote, ‘I wish to announce the death of our Mother Mrs Margaret Ntianu Oputa nee Onumonu which occurred Tuesday the 8th of October, 2019’.

The activist also shared the picture of himself and his mother on the social media platform with a poem to praise his late mother.