Personal Life
Ah Koy's father was born in China. His mother was a native of Kadavu, though her mother hailed from the village of Nasogo in Ba Province.
Ah Koy has four children (Michael, Anthony, Monica, and Carolyn) with the late Lavinia Ah Koy, a former parliamentary secretary, to whom he was married for many years prior to her death from complications relating to kidney failure in 2003. He has recently remarried.
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