Olumide Bakare has been sick on the sick bed since January 13. Since then he has been bedridden and receiving treatment at the University College Hospital, Ibadan. The Yoruba movie star said that the plan to raise money for his treatment was genuine and not to defraud any Nigeria.
He was reported to be
battling with heart and lung related problems. While N7million is being raised
for his treatment. However an online publication has reported that he might not
immediately need that much. Reacting to this on Monday in a video interview
posted on an online forum, Ibadan Film Circle, Bakare lamented that it was
unfair for anyone to doubt his integrity in the situation he was.
He said, “I want
Nigerians to know that I’m still on admission in UCH”. I want people to know what I’m going through.
I want them to know that I have heart and lungs problems. There is clot in my
heart and in my lungs. “But what UCH is trying to do is not to rush into
surgery. That’s why we have been
managing the situation with drugs and injection. I am under serious supervision
now.”
“I have been battling with this ‘blood clot problem’ since
2013 and I have never asked anybody for a dime.
So if anyone is saying that I’m trying to dupe Nigerians, at what Age?”
“I have been on admission since Jan 13. I was in the
intensive care unit for 18days I was on oxygen for close to 20 days and still
on admission, nothing is free in the UCH. Everything in the Hospital is about
money. Even the gloves that the nurses use, when they want to do something on you,
you will have to buy them yourself.”
“I didn’t even start soliciting this money myself. It was
started by a television station. So don’t even understand those noises that I was
trying to defraud Nigerians, and that I’m telling lies about my health. Do I
want to be in the Hospital anyway?”
Source : Punch
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