Accident victim seeks N4million

• Published date: 08 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

A40-year-old businessman Opeifa Dotun is facing a serious health challenge that could claim his life following an accident in 2019.

He is suffering from what doctors called bony fragment surrendered by lucent, which could lead to untimely death, if not properly managed.

Opeifa, a building contractor had accident shortly after he was robbed at a gun point while returning from work in 2019.

The victim said he has been contemplating suicide before his friends advised him to approach Nigerians for assistance.

The father of four had spent all his life saving hard earned money on the sickness since the incidentfour years ago.

Doctors at the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta in Ogun State warned that he could manage to walk again if he could raise N4million for comprehensive surgery, which would enable him to walk again.

They said he is otherwise risking a life threatening paralysis as the affected leg is swelling on the daily basis.

A document signed by Dr. Agbohunmi, a consultant radiologist at the FMC, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta indicates that there is urgent need to carry out surgery on Opeifa to avoid total crippling.

The result of the x-ray administered on him reads; 'There is expansion of the proximal...