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The news of
Nigeria's music producer, OJB Jezreel's kidney predicament drew public sympathy
and attention to the extent that few hours after, the news broke that he needed
a matching kidney donor. Phone buzzed and enquiries were made to some media
people who reported the news that some people were willing to donate kidney to
OJB Jezreel to help him out of the predicament.
“OJB Jezreel must
not die, we can't afford to lose another legend in the entertainment industry
just like that,” one of the concerned volunteers had told First Weekly.
It was not
surprising however, when members of the public, through some social media
platforms, lambasted some Nigerian celebrities for ignoring the music
producer-cum-singer by not donating to save him while they keep lavishing money
on some material things.
Don Jazzy and
P-Square reacted to the outburst on twitter. While Don Jazzy told his fans not
to wait for any celeb to save OJB Jezreel, Peter Okoye of P-Square stated that
they were solidly behind the ailing star.
Soon after,
different figures were quoted in the media as the cash donated for the Save OJB
Jezreel campaign headed by popular singer, Nomoreloss. The donations were
enmeshed in controversies as there were conflicting reports of real and fake
donors.
The controversies
also reportedly caused the Lagos State Government, which had earlier donated
the sum of N4.5 million to Nollywood actress, Ngozi Nwosu, to withdraw its
support towards the Save OJB Jezreel campaign.
However, last week
Tuesday the media reported that the Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi,
who doubles as the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors' Forum (NGF), donated a
sum of N16Million, which covers the cost of the kidney transplant needed to
save the life of OJB Jezreel.
What surprised us
is that those who claimed to be in charge of OJB Jezreel's Fundraising Campaign
were not giving out authentic information to the media on what have been
realized as donations.
This is because
Nomoreloss, who claimed to be the head of the committee, once broadcast on
BlackBerry that the N5M reportedly donated by P-Square was a fallacy, but a
video released by CrunchTV rubbished his message.
When the supposed
donation by Governor Amaechi became public knowledge, Nomoreloss initially
claimed that it was false with a claim that the Governor had not contacted the
committee, while in the actual sense; the people working behind the scene had
almost finished plans on how the money would be passed across to the family.
Also, contrary to
the rumoured issuance of the operation money last week Friday, the money was
actually transferred into the appropriate account on Thursday by one of those,
who facilitated the donation on behalf of the government of Rivers State.
It is noteworthy to state that Governor
Amaechi wanted a very quiet and discreet donation as he had been doing in the
past.
Sources even said
that the governor is not happy that the secret donation was leaked to the
press, which was apparently perpetrated by some greedy members of the OJB
Jezreel Fundraising Committee, who wanted a share of the money.
Our findings
showed that some of the fundraising committee members were actually keen on
getting commissions from the donations made to OJB Jezreel by kind hearted
Nigerians.
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