For years, ace producer, singer and song writer Babatunde Jezreel
Okungbowa suffered a life threatening kidney disease and no one knew
until now.
OJB shocked Nigeria's entertainment scene when he emerged from the shadows of his quiet search for a cure to his kidney ailment when he announced he needed $100,000 (approx 16 million naira) to undergo a kidney transplant to save his life.
OJB told HIP TV "I guese this is something I have more or less been battling intensively with for two years. Before now it was just an off and on experience with High Blood Pressure, and once in a while a little pain down there.
But as at 2011, it became very intense; swollen feet, swollen stomach and swollen face. It was discovered that the Kidney was malfunctioning but at as that time they could actually do something about it if they stepped down the blood pressure which we did in 2011.
From 2012 up until now it's been an off and on scenerio. Two days you're down and then you're bouncing back again. But from 2013, about two, three months ago, it became a serious situation whereby I can't eat, I can't drink.
I think going to the media has debunked a certain idea. Ofcourse, in entertainment we are making money but sometimes people expect more than the unusual from us. I mean we have money but we are not Dangote, we have money but we are not Opera.
It's not been easy for the two, three years since we started handling it because before you know it, they give you a bill for a year of going to the hospital and you find out that for the past one year you've spent two, three million naira and you do that again the second year and you say wow! and there's still no solution. You discover that you are at a stage that it's even more complex and it's obvious you can't fight the battle alone. The truth is, you have to open up your boundaries and let people help you at large.
OJB shocked Nigeria's entertainment scene when he emerged from the shadows of his quiet search for a cure to his kidney ailment when he announced he needed $100,000 (approx 16 million naira) to undergo a kidney transplant to save his life.
OJB told HIP TV "I guese this is something I have more or less been battling intensively with for two years. Before now it was just an off and on experience with High Blood Pressure, and once in a while a little pain down there.
But as at 2011, it became very intense; swollen feet, swollen stomach and swollen face. It was discovered that the Kidney was malfunctioning but at as that time they could actually do something about it if they stepped down the blood pressure which we did in 2011.
From 2012 up until now it's been an off and on scenerio. Two days you're down and then you're bouncing back again. But from 2013, about two, three months ago, it became a serious situation whereby I can't eat, I can't drink.
I think going to the media has debunked a certain idea. Ofcourse, in entertainment we are making money but sometimes people expect more than the unusual from us. I mean we have money but we are not Dangote, we have money but we are not Opera.
It's not been easy for the two, three years since we started handling it because before you know it, they give you a bill for a year of going to the hospital and you find out that for the past one year you've spent two, three million naira and you do that again the second year and you say wow! and there's still no solution. You discover that you are at a stage that it's even more complex and it's obvious you can't fight the battle alone. The truth is, you have to open up your boundaries and let people help you at large.
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