The best kept secret of Nollywood actor Muna Obiekwe who
passed away secretly at a specialist hospital in Festac
Lagos yesterday, Sunday January 18th, 2015 has been
exposed.
This was made known by his godmother and fellow actress
Vera Kanu (pictured on the left above).
In an exclusive chat with icampus, Vera Kanu said Muna
Obiekwe in his lifetime was a chain smoker and an
alcoholic. She said his addiction contributed to his kidney
damage.
Vera said Muna lost his parents a while ago in a fatal car
accident and since then he has been using alcohol and
smoke to console himself.
In the process, Muna reportedly consulted a doctor who
suggested that he should do at least 20 kidney dialyses to
re-energize his kidney.
He was then told to avoid alcohol.. Vera said that the actor
didn’t quit drinking until the time of his death.
Vera continued:
“I was with him to the last hour. He was to do up to 20
dialyses; the doctor said if the dialysis improved his condition,
the worse would certainly be over. He will be okay only if he
stays away from alcohol but you know our artiste,” she
concluded.“the dialysis was expensive for Muna.
He was doing two in a week sometimes. And he would need
blood injection on each occasion. Each appointment was
costing him between N250, 000 to N300, 000; money he did not
really have to spend. His health was eating deep into his purse
yet Muna refused to go cap in hand begging for alms. He was a
private guy who didn’t want the press or his colleagues to feast
on his pain.
“He was managing it on his own. As a matter of fact, he has
been managing it for a while until Ejiro Okurame and I came on
board to help. We were combining resources to help him but
there was very little we could do to save him. We had to enlist
the help of Patience Ozokwor and Kanayo O. Kanayo (KOK) at a
point. They rendered the help they could until he die d.
Muna Obiekwe
Vera Kanu says Muna Obiekwe Lived A Very Private Life
“The guy was private. He kept to himself a lot and most
importantly, kept his private life private; for instance, many
people did not even know he was married with two children.
Such was his life. He didn’t want press or his colleagues to
start prying. He was particularly afraid of the press, hence his
shutting his colleagues out of his pain. He knew if some
Nollywood people got to know about it, the press would also
get to know. He refused to beg to save Nollywood’s image, he
in-turn, lost himself.”
Vera Kanu
“Everybody in the industry knows Muna drinks a lot; even when
he’s shooting in the North, he has a way of finding alcohol. He
fell into it, after he lost his parents in a ghastly motor
accident. ‘As a matter of fact, he was supposed to be in that
car with them but by stroke of luck, he wasn’t and was spared.
Afterwards, Muna took solace in liquor but that never affected
his job. He was just like Sam Loco; he could drink the whole
sea but when he hears the director shout ‘action,’ he gets into
character. Muna was a method character despite his flaws’’
Vera Kanu beside Muna Obiekwe at the hospital
So where was Ibinabo Fiberesima when Muna needed
money for dialysis?
If Patience Ozokwor was involved, she must have talked
about it to Ibinabo, perhaps Muna is not her type of person.
Oh by the way, colleagues and fans have started raining
insults on Ibinabo Fiberesima for her partial attitude
towards Nollywood celebrities
“ Don’t mind that foolish ibinabo, he never treat everyone
equally, he sees some of us as her enemy and never bother
about our well being ” – a Nollywood actress told
NaijaGists.com authoritatively in a chat earlier today
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