John Fashanu Babangida of stealing money from Nigeria, apologised saying "I can say it again and again, that there was nothing like debt buy-back or any billions stacked away in any account anywhere." Minton said that Fashanu was given false information by the Church of Scientology to attack him. Wimbledon Fashanu, who was the younger brother of Justin Fashanu, disowned his brother after the latter came out as gay, telling "The Voice" that Justin was "an outcast". After Justin took his own life in 1998, Fashanu expressed remorse for abandoning his brother. Fashanu has two sons, Amir and Akio, and two daughters,
Justin Fashanu of London Cemetery and Crematorium. John Fashanu later regretted some of the comments he made when his brother first came out. In an interview with TalkSPORT in 2012, John Fashanu subsequently claimed his brother was not gay and was merely an attention seeker. Fashanu was listed at number 99 in the Top 500 Lesbian and Gay Heroes in "The Pink Paper". In March 2009 a football team, The Justin Fashanu All-stars, was named at a special event in Brighton, supported by the FA. The team, named in his honour, was created by the Justin Campaign, which is a campaign against